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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Labhradha (see Lavery).
  • Northern English and Scottish : from a pet form of Lawrence.
  • Southwestern English : habitational name from Lowery in Devon, named with the Old English personal name Lēofa or Lufa + Old English worðig ‘enclosure’.

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