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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of several places in West Yorkshire called Gawthrop or Gawthorpe, all of which are named from Old Norse gaukr ‘cuckoo’ + þorp ‘enclosure’ (see Thorpe).

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