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Updated: July 3, 2024
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How Popular Is The Name Yarrow

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish (Borders) and English : habitational name from a place so called, named for the river on which it stands, one in the Border region of Scotland, the other in Lancashire, both named with Welsh garw ‘rough’.
  • Scottish (Borders) and English : topographic name for someone who lived in a place overgrown with yarrow, Old English gearwe.

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