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harder Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a hardener of metals or a baker, from an agent derivative of Middle English harde(n); this verb is known to have been used with reference to metals and to heating dough.
  2. North German, Frisian, and Danish: from a personal name, Harder, Herder.
  3. South German: topographic name or habitational name from any of the places named with Middle High German hart ‘woodland used as pasture’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of harder Families in the US in 1920
Number of harder families
 116-230
 39-115		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 193 - Messages: 504
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Catherine (Horr) Harder - b. abt. 1829 - Herkimer Co., NY patti600 1
Carl, Arthur, Fred Harder A66Angel 3
Franz Harder Diane Ansons 3
Harter/Harder reunion FYI - khardersittel 0
Grave of Harder patriarch neglected - Columbia Co., NY jaharder88 0
Michael HERDER (1708-1795) jaharder88 0
Obit; Morton Harder 1935-2OO7 woodsman1953 0
BEATRICE Stowe HARDER - In Michigan pbyochim 1
Harder's NC>TN>AL>MS>TX Cynthia Chandler 12
Harder in Northern NY 1750-1900 Elaine H. Walters 1
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