Harden Family History
- Harden Name Meaning
- English (mainly southeastern England): habitational name from Harden in West Yorkshire, which gets its name from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær ‘rock’ + denu ‘valley’. Harden in Staffordshire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Haworthyn, Harwerthyn (from Old English heah ‘high’ + worðign ‘enclosure’), was probably not reduced to its modern form early enough to lie behind any examples of the surname. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair (see Hardy). North German: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name with the first element hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 721,074 Historical Documents with Harden on Ancestry
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- 9,818 Immigration Records
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Number of Harden families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harden families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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