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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Home-loving

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a variant of Lothrop. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from Layerthorpe in York, which is named from Old Norse leirr ‘clay’ or leira ‘clayey place’ + þorp ‘outlying farmstead’.

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