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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for an armorer, from Middle High German harnasch ‘iron armor’, from Old French harneis ‘equipment’, ‘accoutrements (of a soldier or horse)’.
  • variant of Harnik (see Harnick).

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