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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of several places named Hartenstein, in Saxony and Bavaria.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name composed of German hart ‘hard’ + Stein ‘rock’, ‘stone’.

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