Last name: ROWE
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ROWE : This last name is indexed 309,330 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ROWE : 1: English: from Middle English rowe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street or habitational for someone who lived in a place so named. Compare Rawe and Rew.2: English (of Norman origin): variant of Rolfe Ralph or Rough. Compare Rowson.3: East German: habitational name from any of the places called Rowe Rowa Rowe(n). Compare Rowen.
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