Howard_(surname)

Howard (surname)

Howard (surname)

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This article is about the surname Howard. For the given name, see Howard. For other uses, see Howard (disambiguation).

Howard is a common English surname. One source for this surname is with the Gaelic names Ó hOghartaigh and Ó hIomhair.[1] Other origins also exist. The dominant theory pertains to the French personal names Huard and Houard adapted after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is from a Germanic source similar to Old High German *Hugihard "heart-brave," or *Hoh-ward, literally "high defender; chief guardian." Also probably in some cases a confusion with cognate Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Haward from Hávarðr, which means ha(r) "high" (or hǫð "battle") and element varðr, meaning "guardian", and sometimes also with unrelated Hayward. In some rare cases from Old English eowu hierde "ewe herd."[2][3][4] In Anglo-Norman the French digramm -ou- was often rendered as -ow- such as couard → coward, tour → tower, flour (western variant form of fleur) → flower, etc (two last examples with svarabakhti, typical of the Anglo-Norman language). The first public record of the surname is dated 1221 in Cambridgeshire. There are several variant surname spellings.[5]

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  1. [1]
    "Surname: Howard". sloinne.ie. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
  2. [2]
    "howard". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  3. [3]
    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press, 1988.
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    "Howard - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.nordicnames.de.
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    "Surname: Howard". surnamedb.com. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
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