Given name & surname
Hereward
“army”·“guard”
Hereward is a masculine given name from Old English.
Original Old EnglishHereweard
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hereward is built from elements meaning “army” and “guard”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English Hereweard, built from Old English here (“army”) + weard (“guard”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hereward’s family of names
In English usage, Hereward shares an earlier linguistic root with Harvard. In English usage, Hereward was borrowed from the Old English form Hereweard. In English usage, Hereward shares an earlier linguistic root with HARWARD.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hereward
- Hereward the Wake11th-century leader of local resistance to the Norman conquest of England1032–1072
- Hereward CarringtonBritish parapsychologist (1880–1958)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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