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The harding Surname

harding Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly southern England and South Wales) and Irish: from the Old English personal name Hearding, originally a patronymic from Hard 1. The surname was first taken to Ireland in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200 years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.
  2. North German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the harding family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of harding Families in the US in 1920
Number of harding families
 303-604
 102-302		 1-101
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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