Hurt: English: variant of Hart . In Middle English Old English heorot ‘hart’ became hurt west of a line running roughly from Dorking to Birmingham and this has occasionally survived though often replaced by the standard hart from hert. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle woven fence’.
Includes other variations, such as Harte, Hurte, Hurts, Harts, Heart, Hort, Heriot, Hirt, Huart, Huret, Haret, Hartie, Hiret, Hirot, Hurtt