nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from
Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English
lawerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name
for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking
pot.from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence,
derived by back-formation from Larkin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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