Harcourt
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) ‘person from Harcourt’ in Shropshire; (ii) ‘person from Harcourt’ in northern France
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Harcourt is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
- NGNigeria
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) ‘person from Harcourt’ in Shropshire; (ii) ‘person from Harcourt’ in northern France
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Harcourt is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Harcourt (Eure); first attested William de Harewcurt 1055 OEByn
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
habitational name from places in Eure and Calvados named Harcourt, from Old French cour(t) (see Court) with an obscure first element.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, English: 'fortified residence'.
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourtb. 1743GBBritish Army officer
- William Vernon Harcourtb. 1827GBBritish politician (1827–1904)
- Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourtb. 1863GBBritish politician (1863-1922)
- James Harcourtb. 1873GBBritish actor (1873-1951)
- Harcourt Williamsb. 1880GBEnglish actor (1880–1957)
- Martin Chiversb. 1945GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (1945–2026)
- Thierry Harcourtb. 1953FRFrench film director
- Miranda Harcourtb. 1962NZNew Zealand actress
- Bernard Harcourtb. 1963USAmerican academic
- Ed Harcourtb. 1977GBEnglish singer-songwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,333 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 41 | #584 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #33,571 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Harcourt mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) ‘person from Harcourt’ in Shropshire; (ii) ‘person from Harcourt’ in northern France Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Harcourt have the most bearers?
- Harcourt is most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
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About this data
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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Harcourt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.