English (mainly southern England and South Wales) and Irish:
from the Old English personal name Hearding, originally a
patronymic from Hard 1. The surname was first taken to Ireland
in the 15th century, and more families of the name settled there 200
years later in Tipperary and surrounding counties.North
German and Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the various
Germanic compound personal names beginning with hard ‘hardy’,
‘brave’, ‘strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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