Last Name MORROW

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Meaning Local: Of the moor-row, i.e. the cottages on the moor. Row is a common suffix to early local surnames. There is a hamlet Morrowe in the parish of Wisbeach, county Cumberland. In certain cases the surname could be a corruption of Mac Murrough.
Origin English, Jewish, French, Irish

Rank 538 (2000 US census) 525 (1990 US census)
Count 55,664 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 81.58%, or 45411 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 14.32%, or 7971 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.44%, or 245 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.68%, or 379 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.56%, or 868 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.42%, or 790 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

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