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Where does “Hibbard” come from?

Hibbard is an English surname of uncertain origin, possibly derived from a Germanic personal name but with no documented etymological chain to earlier language sources.

Ancestry of “Hibbard”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHilbert—
2Middle EnglishHilbert—
3Old Englishhildbattle, war
4Proto-West Germanichildibattle, fight
5Proto-Germanichildizbattle, fight
Every word from Proto-Germanic hildiz →