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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly south Lancashire) : habitational name from any of several places in West Yorkshire or from one in Cheshire called Harrop, or from Harehope in Northumberland, all of which are named from Old English hara ‘hare’ + hop ‘valley’.

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