The story
- Old High German · derived fromhart“forest, wood”
- Middle High German · derived fromhart“woods”
- English todayHardt
* As a German topographical surname, from Middle High German hart (“woods”), from Old High German hart (“forest, wood”, literally “hard”). * As a German and Dutch nickname, cognate with hard and hardy. Also sometimes a spelling variant of Hart.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.