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origin
English: habitational name from Lowthorpe in East Yorkshire, named with the Old Norse personal name Logi or Lági + þorp: "outlying farmstead". This suggests that Lowthorpe may have been established in the Kingdom of Jórvik.
notes
Approximately 95% of the people in the U.S. that have the surname Lathrop are descended from John Lathrop. He himself spelled his name Lothropp. It is estimated that 70% of his descendants use the derivation of Lathrop, while the other 30% use Lothrop. Surname spelling changes were common before the middle part of the 19th century.
other versions of this surname
- Lathrop
- Lawthrop
- Lothorp
- Lothrop
- Lothrope
- Lowthorppe
- Lowthrop
- Lowthrope
- Lowthroppe
- Lowthrup
- Lowthruppe