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Hardman Name Meaning

English (chiefly Lancashire): occupational name for a herdsman, a variant of Herdman (see Heard). (The change of -er- to -ar- was a regular phonetic pattern in Old French and Middle English.English: from an unattested Old English personal name Heardmann, composed of the elements heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’ + mann ‘man’. According to Reaney and Wilson, compound names with this second element became common in late Old English in eastern England.Irish: of English origin (see above), but sometimes confused with Harman.Dutch: variant of Hardeman 2.Americanized spelling of German Hartmann.

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

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