Given name & surname

Straw

Straw is a surname from Middle English.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Straw comes from Middle English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English straw.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Straw’s family of names

In English usage, Straw as a surname shares a linguistic root with the German form STROH.

Walk Straw’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Straw, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Middle English

Strutt

Strutt is a surname.

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Middle English

Stagg

“stag, hart”

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Middle English

Trow

“faithful, loyal”

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French

St Barbe

St Barbe is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Anglo-Norman.

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Middle English

Sadd

“considered, thoughtful, serious”

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Middle English

Thew

“thrall, slave”

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Old Norse

Scarff

“cormorant”

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Old English

Salt

Salt is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Straw’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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