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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire and Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard ‘hard’, ‘difficult’ + aker ‘cultivated land’ (Old English æcer), or a habitational name from Hardacre, a place in Clapham, West Yorkshire, which has this etymology.

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