View Surname: Hartell

Diminutive of either hardt as in "hardy, tough"; or hart "male deer". Thus it means "little tough one", or "little buck".

There is a story of two brothers named Hartell having a dispute shortly after the Civil War. One kept the name as Hartell, the other moved away and changed his name to Hartle, with the accent moved to "hart". Supposedly this is the origin of the variant Hartle.

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