Hard Family History
- Hard Name Meaning
- English: from the Old English personal name Heard or a Norman cognate Hard(on), also of Germanic origin. This was a byname meaning ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, but it also seems to have been used as a short form of the various compound names containing this as a first element. Occasionally this may also be a variant of Hardy. English, German, Dutch, and Swedish (Hård): nickname for a stern or severe man, from Middle English, Middle Low German hard, Middle Dutch hart, hert, Swedish hård ‘hard’, ‘inflexible’. The Swedish name was probably originally a soldier’s name. English: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of particularly hard ground or one that was difficult to farm. Compare Hardacre. Dutch: occupational name from Middle Dutch harde, herde ‘herder’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 292,976 Historical Documents with Hard on Ancestry
- 90,767 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,058 Census and Voter Lists
- 22,353 Military Records
- 6,850 Immigration Records
- 111,948 Member Trees
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Number of Hard families
 75 - 147  26 - 74 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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129 - 255 44 - 128 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 167
- Confederate
- 55
- Union
- 112
from the Civil War Service Records
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