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The harcourt Surname

harcourt Name Meaning and History

  1. English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French cour(t) (see Court) with an obscure first element.
  2. English: habitational name from either of two places in Shropshire named Harcourt. The one near Cleobury Mortimer gets the name from Old English heafocere ‘hawker’, ‘falconer’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘cottage’; the one near Wem has as its first element Old English hearpere (see Harper).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The harcourt name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the harcourt family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of harcourt Families in the US in 1920
Number of harcourt families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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