Barrows Family Name and Heraldry

There is no single Barrows family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

The meaning behind Barrows

If your family name is Barrows, its origin lies with Barrow, an English surname. The name is usually explained as “grove or hill”.

Barrows adds a patronymic ending to Barrow, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Other spellings include Barrowe. The 2010 census count for Barrows in the United States was 7,773, good for rank 4,561. That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Barros, Barrios and Burrows.

Get the complete Barrows report, with a museum-style coat of arms.