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The harland Surname

harland Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly northeastern): habitational name from any of various minor places (including perhaps some now lost) named from Old English har ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock’, ‘tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside. North Yorkshire, which is named from hær + land. This surname has been present in northern Ireland since the 17th century.
  2. French (Normandy): nickname for someone given to stirring up trouble, from the present participle of medieval French hareler ‘to create a disturbance’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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harland Family Facts

Distribution of harland Families in the US in 1920
Number of harland families
 29-55
 10-28		 1-9
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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