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marlow Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from the place in Buckinghamshire on the Thames, named in Old English with mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + lafe ‘remnants’, ‘leavings’, i.e. a boggy area remaining after a lake had been drained.
  2. possibly also a variant of Marley.

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marlow Family Facts

Distribution of marlow Families in the US in 1920
Number of marlow families
 73-144
 25-72
 1-24
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