The Ehrhardt surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,874 people carried this name — #11,060 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 103,100 people counted. That is down 1% from 2,902 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Ehrhardt surname
Borrowed from German Erhard, in turn composed of Old High German ēra (“honour”) + hart (“hardy”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ehrhardt» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 603 people named Ehrhardt.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
88 people named Ehrhardt live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
35 people named Ehrhardt is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Ehrhardt,
with a public archive behind them.
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Johann Jacob Ehrhardt 1609–1670 · council member
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Benjamin Friedrich Ehrhardt 1714–1781 · physician
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Christian Jakob Ehrhardt 1721–1782 · ecclesiastical councillor
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Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt 1732–1793 · writer
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Sigmund Just Ehrhardt 1733–1793
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Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrhardt 1752–1820 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ehrhardt.
- Ehling 425 · U.S. census
- Ehlinger 899 · U.S. census
- Ehrenfeld 492 · U.S. census
- Ehresmann 292 · U.S. census
- Ehret 2,061 · U.S. census
- Ehrhard 434 · U.S. census
- Ehrhart 1,987 · U.S. census
- Ehrler 529 · U.S. census
- Ehrlich 6,031 · U.S. census
- Ehrmann 678 · U.S. census
- Ehrsam 473 · U.S. census
- Eibel 222 · U.S. census
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