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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by woods used as pasture, from Middle High German hart.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic compound personal name beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • Dutch : variant spelling of Hard 2.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hart.

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