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).