Scottish: habitational name from a place named with Gaelic
àird(e) ‘height’, ‘promontory’, or ‘headland’, from the
adjective àrd ‘high’, ‘lofty’, cognate with Latin
arduus ‘steep’, ‘difficult’. There is one such place near
Hurlford in Ayrshire, and another in Inch, Wigtownshire. See also
Ard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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