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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Middle English hardi ‘bold’, ‘courageous’ + man ‘man’.
  • Irish : in addition to being an importation to Ireland of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArgadáin (see Hargadon).

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