Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from (East, South, and, formerly, West) Harting in West Sussex, named with an unattested Old English byname Heort ‘hart’ + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family, dependants, or followers’.
- North German (also Härting) : patronymic from Hart or Hardt 2.
- German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria or from Hartingen, near Diepholz, Lower Saxony.