Herders meaning | Last name Herders origin

Herders is a variant of Harders. Dweller at, or near, the hard or firm embankment; one who took care of animals, a herder.

A form of Hardres. Robert de Hardres is mentioned in Domesday under Lyminge, county of Kent. There are two parishes in that county so called, and Hardres Court was the family seat down to the extinction of the baronetcy in 1764. An undisputed tradition says that the family came from Ardres in Picardy, and conferred their name upon the Kentish localities—a circumstance of rare but not of unique occurrence. In Heraldic Visitations and in records, the name is sometimes corrupted to Hards.

The Herders is the form of Hearder. May either mean herd, a keeper of cattle, etc.; or hurder, a northern provincialism for a heap of stones thus coming under the same category as Heap, Monceux, &c.