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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : habitational name from Haworth in West Yorkshire, named with Old English haga ‘enclosure’ (here perhaps with the sense ‘hedge’) + worð ‘enclosure’.
  • English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : variant of Howarth.

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