FamilyEducation.com
   
 

First name origin & meaning:

English: Stag

First name variations: Harte, Hartley, Hartman, Hartwig, Heart, Hart

Last name origin & meaning:

English: habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called Hartwell, from Old English heorot ‘stag’, ‘hart’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’. In some cases the surname may have arisen from Hartwell in Hartfield, Sussex or Hartwell in Lamerton, Devon.

This name appears in the following lists: Nobel Prize Winners