Harlow Family History
Harlow Name Meaning
habitational name from any of various places called
Harlow. One in West Yorkshire is probably named from Old English
hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ + hlaw ‘mound’,
‘hill’; those in Essex and Northumberland have Old English here
‘army’ as the first element, perhaps in the sense ‘host’, ‘assembly’.There is also a record of this name as a variant of Cornish
Penhollow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Harlow Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harlow families
 147 - 292  50 - 146 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harlow families
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221 - 439 74 - 220 |
1 - 73 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harlow families
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10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harlow Family Origin
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Harlow Family Occupations
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