Farrowe Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

The same name, two spellings: Farrowe and Farrow. Taken at its root, Farrowe points to “a young pig keeper or a nickname”.

Related forms: Farro. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. Farrowe adds “e” to Farrow, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Farrowe, so the heraldry linked to Farrow is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Farrowe report, with a museum-style coat of arms.