as a Last Name
- 1,172
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Harstad
Meaning & Origins
Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads, notably in southeastern Norway, so named from the Old Norse personal name Hǫrðr (someone from Hǫrðaland) or Hárekr (from Há of unknown origin + rekr ‘powerful’, ‘ruler’) + staðr ‘farmstead’.
| 23,189th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,172
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Harstad per capita
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