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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Merseyside and Cheshire) : probably a habitational name from a place in Cheshire named Big Low in the township of Rainbow. This place name is not on early record; it means ‘big mound’, from early Modern English big + low ‘mound’, ‘hill’ (Old English hlāw).

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