Lark

See also: lark

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Lark

1. A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks.
2. A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
4. A female given name from English from the lark bird.
   • 1989, Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, Penguin, published 1989, →ISBN, page 2:

     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.

5. A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Lark

1. Alternative form of Larak (“island off the coast of Iran”)

Anagrams

• Karl, Klar, Kral, klar