Given name & surname · also Old English
Hard
“tough, brave, hardy”
Hard is a surname from Old English, ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hard goes back to Old French hardi, meaning “tough, brave, hardy.”
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Where it comes from
Hard comes from Old English, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old French hardi (“tough, brave, hardy”), from Proto-Germanic *harduz.
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Hard’s family of names
In English usage, Hard as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Swedish form Hård. In German usage, Hard as a surname has a related form in Haerdle. In German usage, Hard as a surname has a related form in HARTL.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Herdtlevariant · German
- Härdtlevariant · German
- Haerdlevariant · German
- Hördlevariant · German
- Hartlvariant · German
- Hertlevariant · German
- Härtlevariant · German
- Herdlevariant · German
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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