Frequency: (472)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Variant of German Ehard(t), from the personal name Ehard, composed of the Old High German elements ē ‘law’, ‘order’ + hart(i) ‘hard’, ‘firm’.
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