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harder Name Meaning and History
- 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.
- North German, Frisian, and Danish: from a personal name, Harder, Herder.
- 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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