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Surname Etymology and Meaning of YARROW

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A plant; the millfoil, or plant of a thousand leaves.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. habitational name from a place so called, named for the river on which it stands, one in the Border region of Scotland, the other in Lancashire, both named with Welsh garw ‘rough’.
2. topographic name for someone who lived in a place overgrown with yarrow, Old English gearwe.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)