Lark
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A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
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A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
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A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.
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A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
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A female given name from English from the lark bird.
Mama had chosen the name Lark. Lark Browning Erhardt. Papa had wanted to call me Beverly Mary; Mary after the Blessed Virgin. Mama said she wouldn't hang a name like Beverly Mary on a pet skunk. Where she got the idea for Lark, I don't know, though one time when I asked, she said that larks flew high and had a happy song.
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A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
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Variant of LarakAlternative form of Larak (“island off the coast of Iran”).
Lark · A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
Larkin · A surname.larry · A confused noise; an uproar; a hubbub.Larry · A diminutive of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence,…