The story
- Proto-West Germanic · derived from*hari“army”
- English todayHarmon
* As an English surname, by way of Norman/Anglo-Norman/Middle English/Old French from Proto-West Germanic *hari (“army”) + *mann (“man”), similar to Herman. Also Americanized from German variants such as Harmann, Hermann. Compare Harman. * As an Irish surname, variant of Hargadon, from Ó hArgadáin (literally “descendant of Argadán”), from a diminutive of airgead (“silver”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-West Germanic*hari all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.