First name origins & meanings:
- English: A bird
- Irish: Cruel
First name variations: Larke, Larkin, Lirkin, Larkan, Larken, Larkie, Larky, Larkin Last name origins & meanings:
- English: nickname for a merry person or an early riser, from
Middle English lavero(c)k, lark (Old English
lāwerce). 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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Mia Farrow This name appears in the following lists:
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