Entry № 11651 · English origin

Yarrow Yarrow — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAIR-oh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"A healing wildflower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a healing wildflower".

Yarrow is a feathery white-and-pink wildflower long valued in folk healing, from the Old English gearwe.

Gentle and herbal, it carries the quiet of a meadow.

A healing wildflower — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Yarrow
Transliteration
Yarrow
Pronunciation
/ ˈja.ɾo /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yarrow stands.

Yarrow does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yarrows before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yarrow.

The number behind Yarrow.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yarrow reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.