Meadow Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

The last name Meadow is another written form of Meadows, an English family name. In origin, the name means “Dweller by the meadows”.

A variant of Meadows

Without the “s” of Meadows, Meadow is a simpler written form of the same name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. You may also find the name written Medows and Meddows.

The 2010 census count for Meadow in the United States was 926, good for rank 26,362.

Meadow coat of arms

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