Laws Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

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Family name meaning

The spelling Laws grew out of Law, a Scottish surname with a long paper trail. At root, the name means “one who lived by a hill”.

The extra ending in Laws is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Law's family. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Laws ranked 2,486 in the 2010 US Census, with 14,511 people answering to the name.

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