Harcourt Family History
Harcourt Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from
places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French
cour(t) (see Court) with an obscure first
element.English: habitational name from either of two places in
Shropshire named Harcourt. The one near Cleobury Mortimer gets the
name from Old English heafocere ‘hawker’, ‘falconer’ +
cot ‘hut’, ‘cottage’; the one near Wem has as its first element
Old English hearpere (see Harper).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
550,182
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Name Distribution of Harcourt Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harcourt families
 73 - 143  25 - 72 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harcourt families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harcourt Family Origin
Harcourt Emigration Information (US)
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Harcourt Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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