Borrows Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Clerks wrote Burrows in many ways, and Borrows is one that stuck. At root, the name means “one who lived by a hill or mound”. The two spellings differ in a small detail: Borrows has “o” where Burrows has “u”. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Burrowes.

Names that sound alike, such as Barros, are easily confused in old records.

Arms linked to Burrows and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Borrows report, with a museum-style coat of arms.