Family name origins & meanings
- English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of numerous places, for example in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, named Hardwick, from Old English heorde ‘herd’, ‘flock’ + wīc ‘outlying farm’.
- German and French (Lorraine) : from the Germanic personal name Hardwic, composed of the elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’ + wīg ‘battle’, ‘combat’.