Hartz Family History
Hartz Name Meaning
German: habitational name from the Harz Mountains in central Germany. German: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic compound names beginning with the first element hard ‘hardy brave’. North German: from a form of Low German Hart 1 altered to the phonology of standard German. Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from Yiddish harts ‘heart’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022