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Type Surname (from location)
Usage English

Meaning & History

Topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard "hard, difficult" (derived from Old English heard) and aker "field" (derived from Old English æcer), or a habitational name from a place called Hardacre in West Yorkshire, of the same origin.
Added 4/4/2020 by Marusero
Edited 5/9/2025 by DoingNothing247 and Marusero