Hegarte is used as a family name or surname in Scotland. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Hegarte
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Scotland
Meaning:

Lastname Hegarte is the variant form of Haggard. 1. According to B.L.G. the family are supposed to be derived from the Ogards of county of Herts. 2. Haggard is a corruption of "hay-garth," a rick yard, and is so employed in Hall and Holinshed, as well as in several provincial dialects. See Garth - A yard, or any small enclosure. Also places in counties Montgomery and Glamorgan. It is a prefix to several names of places

3, and most probably, an ancient baptismal name which occurs in Domesday as Acard and Acardus, and in the Hundred Rolls as Hacgard.

Surname is the variation of the Haag. Dweller in, or near, the hedged enclosure; keeper of the hedges or fences; one who came from The Hague, i.e., the hedge.

Lastname Hegarte is the form of Hager. The tall, slender man; the wild, untamed man; descendant of Hagar meaning "flight, or a stranger".

Family name is a variant of the Haag. Of the Hague, i.e., the Hedge, or Place enclosed by a hedge. The proper name of the city of the Hague is 's Gravenhage, the Count's hedge.

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