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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from franc ‘open’, ‘generous’ + coeur ‘heart’; a nickname for a warm generous person or a habitational name from places so named in Côtes d’Armor and Yonne. This surname is often Americanized as Hart.

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