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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : patronymic from Hart 1.
  • Dutch : from a derivative of a Germanic compound personal name beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • Dutch (van Harten) : habitational name from a place so named near Renkum, Gelderland.

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