Harden
village
Old EnglishSurmised
Probable2 sources · historical forms · name elements
Harden likely means 'the enclosure or farmstead on the hard ground'. It combines 'heard', meaning hard, with 'denu', meaning valley or den.
Word origins
- heard
- Old EnglishAttestedhard(from heard "hard")
- denu
- Old EnglishAttestedvalley, den(from denu "valley")
Historical forms
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