Family name origins & meanings
- German (Bavaria and Austria) : from Middle High German egerte ‘fallow (land)’; a topographic name for someone who lived near land taken out of production, or a status name for someone who owned such a plot of land.
- German : from the old German personal name Eckhart (see Eckert).
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : unexplained; perhaps an adoption of 2.