Frequency: (2338)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Scottish: 1. habitational name from Darroch near Falkirk, in Stirlingshire, said to be named from Gaelic darach ‘oak tree’. 2. Scottish variant of northern Irish Darragh.
FOREBEARS: George Darrow (b. 1652), a paternal ancestor of legendary criminal trial lawyer Charles Seward Darrow (1857- 1938), emigrated from Leigh, Lancashire, England, to New London, CT, in the mid 17th century.
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