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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : A bird

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Cruel

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Lark

Family 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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