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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Nottinghamshire) : variant of Hart.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’.
  • Dutch : nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’.

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