Last name: HEARD
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HEARD : This last name is indexed 110,609 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HEARD : English: occupational name from Middle English herd(e) hird(e) hord(e) Older Scots herd hird ‘herdsman’ i.e. one who looked after cattle sheep or goats (Old English heorde hierde). Compare Hardman.
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