from a short form of Harprecht, a Germanic
personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hard’ +
brecht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.habitational name from a place
so named on the Elbe river near Wittenberge.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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