Hardy
Hardy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 52 births. Its best rank was 334th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 520.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921151 births
- Best rank
- #334in 1886
- Since 1880
- 5,758people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,758 boys have been named Hardy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 151 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 75 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hardy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 191 | |
| 1890s | 194 | |
| 1900s | 188 | |
| 1910s | 549 | |
| 1920s | 958 | |
| 1930s | 598 | |
| 1940s | 737 | |
| 1950s | 554 | |
| 1960s | 432 | |
| 1970s | 268 | |
| 1980s | 193 | |
| 1990s | 160 | |
| 2000s | 180 | |
| 2010s | 312 | |
| 2020s | 244 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Hardy was the 503rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Hardy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Archiepeak 1918
- Claudepeak 1920
- Frankpeak 1918
- Lutherpeak 1922
- Amospeak 1922
- Henrypeak 2024
- Hendersonpeak 1918
- Arthurpeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.