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English : from the Middle English and Old French personal name Lorens, Laurence (Latin Laurentius ‘man from Laurentum’, a place in Italy probably named from its laurels or bay trees). The name was borne by a saint who was martyred at Rome in the 3rd century ad; he enjoyed a considerable cult throughout Europe, with consequent popularity of the personal name (French Laurent, Italian, Spanish Lorenzo, Catalan Llorenç, Portuguese Lourenço, German Laurenz; Polish Wawrzyniec (assimilated to the Polish word wawrzyn ‘laurel’), etc.). The surname is also borne by Jews among whom it is presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Ashkenazic surnames.
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English : from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Lawrence, formed with the addition of the Middle English suffix -kin (of Low German origin).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lorcáin ‘descendant of Lorcán’, a personal name from a diminutive of lorc ‘fierce’, ‘cruel’, which was sometimes used as an equivalent to Lawrence.
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English : patronymic from an altered form of the personal name Walter.English : variant of Water 2.Irish : when not the English surname, an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin, Hiskey, Tydings).James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
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English : variant spelling of Lawrence.
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Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29
Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29 : 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.English : from a medieval personal name, a diminutive of Lawrence. Compare Law 1 and Larkin.
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English : variant of Lawrence.
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English American Latin
From Laurentium; the place of the laurel trees; place of honor and victory. Feminine of Lawrence.
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American, Australian, British, Celebrity, Chinese, Christian, Dutch, English, French, German, Indian, Irish, Jamaican, Latin, Portuguese
Crowned with Laurels; Form of Lawrence
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English : patronymic from Lawrence.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding Jewish surnames, as for example Levenson.
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English : from the personal name Larry, a pet form of Lawrence.
Male
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Variant spelling of English Laurence, LAWRENCE means "of Laurentum."
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English and French
English and French : variant of Lawrence.
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English (chiefly southern)
English (chiefly southern) : patronymic from the personal name Law (pet form of Lawrence).Perhaps a reduced form of Scottish or Irish McLeish. Compare McLaws.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived near a tumulus, mound or hill, Middle English lowe, from Old English hlÄw (see Law 2).Scottish and English : nickname for a short man, from Middle English lah, lowe (Old Norse lágr; the word was adopted first into the northern dialects of Middle English, where Scandinavian influence was strong, and then spread south, with regular alteration of the vowel quality).English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : nickname for a violent or dangerous person, from Anglo-Norman French lou, leu ‘wolf’ (Latin lupus). Wolves were relatively common in Britain at the time when most surnames were formed, as there still existed large tracts of uncleared forest.Scottish : from a pet form of Lawrence. Compare Lowry 1.Americanized spelling of Jewish Lowe.
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English : variant spelling of Lawrence.
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English : variant spelling of Lawrence.French : from the female personal name Laurence, a feminine equivalent of Lawrence.
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English : nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English lÄwerce). It was perhaps also a metonymic occupational name for someone who netted the birds and sold them for the cooking pot.English : from a medieval personal name, a byform of Lawrence, derived by back-formation from Larkin.
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Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.English
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson, Danish and Norwegian Larsen.English : patronymic from a pet form of Lawrence.
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English and Dutch
English and Dutch : from a dialect form of the personal name Lawrence.
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English : variant spelling of Lawrence.
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n.
One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
a.
The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
n.
A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish.
a.
Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.