Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Labhradha
(see Lavery).
Northern English and Scottish : from a pet
form of Lawrence.
Southwestern English : habitational name
from Lowery in Devon, named with the Old English personal name
Lēofa or Lufa + Old English worðig
‘enclosure’.
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