Updated June 9, 2019 Find Baby Names Boy name origins & meanings English : Thicket of trees Boy name variations Hurst Hurst 0 % this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Hearst Hearst 0 % this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Hyrst Hyrst 0 % this year Masculine Rare READ MORE DETAILS Family name origins & meanings Northern English : variant spelling of Hurst.German (Hürst) : topographic name from Middle Low German hurst ‘brushwood’, ‘wild place’, cognate with English Hurst and Low German Horst.