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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Continental Germanic personal name Theudhard, Old French Thiart, composed of theod ‘people’, ‘race’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • English : perhaps a topographic name from a derivative of Middle English tye ‘common pasture’.

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