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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a hybrid form of the personal name Gerard, consisting of a representation of the pronunciation of Gér-, from the French form of the name (Gérard) + the Germanic component hart ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, from the German cognate (Gerhard).

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