Arrow Family History
Arrow Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Arrow in Warwickshire or Arrowe
in Cheshire. The first takes its name from the Arrow river, a Celtic
or pre-Celtic term meaning ‘stream’; the second, recorded c.
1245 as Arwe, is from Old Norse erg ‘shieling’.Perhaps in some cases a translation of French La Flèche
(‘the arrow’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Arrow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Arrow families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Arrow families
|
32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Arrow families
|
4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Arrow Family Origin
Arrow Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Arrow
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Arrow Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Arrow census records
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