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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) and French : habitational name from places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French cour(t) (see Court) with an obscure first element.
  • English : habitational name from either of two places in Shropshire named Harcourt. The one near Cleobury Mortimer gets the name from Old English heafocere ‘hawker’, ‘falconer’ + cot ‘hut’, ‘cottage’; the one near Wem has as its first element Old English hearpere (see Harper).

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