Ehrhardt: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Ancestors listed as Ehrhardt are often found as Erhardt a generation earlier. Its meaning, shared with Erhardt, is “A descendant of Erhart, honour and brave”. The extra “h” in Ehrhardt is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Erhardts, Erhart and Erhard.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Ehrhardt surname had 2,874 bearers. 1,464 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Ehrhardt name at birth.

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