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Lowery

 
 

Frequency: (13470)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)

1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Labhradha (see Lavery).

2. Northern English and Scottish: from a pet form of Lawrence.

3. Southwestern English: habitational name from Lowery in Devon, named with the Old English personal name Lēofa or Lufa + Old English worðig ‘enclosure’.

See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.

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