List of Baby Names for Boys Starting with H

Harald

(HAH-rahlt)

Origin of the name Harold: Derived from the obsolete Old English Hereweald, a compound name composed of the elements here (army) and weald (ruler, power, control). Alternatively, the Scandinavians introduced the cognate Harald, which is composed of the Germanic elements harja (army) and wald (rule).

Meaning: Powerful man in the army Origin: Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish

Harm

(HAHRM)

Harm Family History. Harm Name Meaning. English: nickname from Old English hearm 'evil', 'hurt', 'injury'. English and North German: from a short form of Harman, Hermann. South German: nickname from Middle High German harm 'ermine'.

Meaning: Army man Origin: Dutch, Germanic

Harrod

(HAR-əd)

Hebrew Meaning: The name Harrod is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Harrod is: Heroic.

Meaning: Ruled by the army Origin: English, Germanic

Hartman

(HAHRT-mən)

Hartman Name Meaning. Dutch: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hard 'hardy', 'strong' + man 'man'. Respelling of German Hartmann. This name is also found in Slovenia and elsewhere in central Europe. Jewish (Ashkenazic): elaborated form of Hart.

Meaning: Fast runner Origin: English, Germanic

Hartwell

(HAHRT-wel)

Hartwell Name Meaning. English: habitational name from places in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire called Hartwell, from Old English heorot 'stag', 'hart' + wella 'spring', 'stream'. In some cases the surname may have arisen from Hartwell in Hartfield, Sussex or Hartwell in Lamerton, Devon.

Meaning: Water hole for stags Origin: English

Haruki

(HAH-roo-kee)

From Japanese 晴 (haru) meaning "clear weather" or 陽 (haru) meaning "light, sun, male" combined with 輝 (ki) meaning "brightness" or 生 (ki) meaning "living".

Meaning: A wooded spring Origin: Japanese

Harvard

(HAHR-vərd)

English: from the Old English personal name Hereweard, composed of the elements here 'army' + weard 'guard', which was borne by an 11th-century thane of Lincolnshire, leader of resistance to the advancing Normans.

Meaning: A guard in the army Origin: English

Haskell

(HAS-kəl)

Haskell Name Meaning. English: from the Norman personal name Aschetil, from Old Norse Ásketill, Áskell, a compound áss 'god' + ketill 'kettle', 'helmet'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name Khaskl, a Yiddish form of the Hebrew name Yechezkel (see Ezekiel).

Meaning: The cauldron of God Origin: Hebrew, Old Norse

Hasse

(HAHS-she)

Hasse Name Meaning. German and Dutch: variant of Hass 1. English: topographic name from an unattested Old English word, hasse 'coarse grass', or a habitational name from a minor place, such as The Hasse in Soham, Cambridgeshire, named from this word.

Meaning: God is merciful Origin: Hebrew, Swedish

Hastings

(HAYS-tingz)

English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings, a place in Sussex, on the south coast of England, near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. ... English: variant of Hasting.

Meaning: Violent Origin: English