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The herdt Surname

herdt Name Meaning and History

  1. South German: nickname from Middle High German hert(e) ‘hard’, ‘coarse’, ‘crude’; perhaps occasionally also from a house name, from herde ‘stove’.
  2. German: from a personal name, Herto, a short form of any of the Germanic compound names beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  3. Dutch: variant of Herd 3.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of herdt Families in the US in 1920
Number of herdt families
 13-23
 5-12
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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