The Lowrie Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Lowrie, so the heraldry linked to Lowry is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Family name meaning

Many Lowrie families will find their roots under Lowry, the form most records use. Name scholars give the meaning as “Little Lawrence”.

Lowrie writes “ie” in place of the “y” found in Lowry, a common scribal difference. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Lowrey, Lowery and Loury. Lowrie ranked 12,485 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,485 people answering to the name.

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