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Herd

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and English : variant spelling of Heard.
  • Dutch : variant of Herder.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch hert, herte ‘hart’, ‘stag’; probably a nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a deer.

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