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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English
Meaning & History
English: habitational name from either of two places: Carrow in Norfolk or Carraw in Northumberland. The first is thought to be named from Old English carr ‘rock’ (a Celtic loan word) + hoh ‘spur of a hill’, while the last may be named either from an Old British plural of carr, or from carr + Old English raw ‘row’. Possibly in some cases a reduced form of the Cornish surname Nancarrow.