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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place in Upper Silesia called Hartstein.
  • German : nickname for a mean or harsh and inflexible person, from Middle High German hart ‘hard’ + stein ‘stone’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental compound name from German Hart ‘deer’ + Stein ‘stone’.

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