Barlow Family History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Barlow especially those in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The former is named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + hlāw ‘hill’; the latter probably has as its first element the derived adjective beren or the compound bere-ærn ‘barn’.

There is also a place of this name in Derbyshire named with Old English bār ‘boar’ or bere ‘barley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ and one in Shropshire which is from bere ‘barley’ + lēah.