Harvard Family History
Harvard Name Meaning
English: from the Old English personal name Hereweard,
composed of the elements here ‘army’ + weard ‘guard’,
which was borne by an 11th-century thane of Lincolnshire, leader of
resistance to the advancing Normans. The Old Norse cognate
Hervarðr was also common and, particularly in the Danelaw,
it may in part lie behind the surname.Welsh: variant of
Havard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Harvard Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harvard families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harvard families
|
14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harvard Family Origin
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Harvard Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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