Harden
#3,541 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harden has been given to 771 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #3,541 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Harden, 2025
1 in 104,000
Harden over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Harden?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 53,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,541
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harden sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harden. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hardens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harden was born before 1939 — so the typical Harden is around 86 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 328
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (273).
Is Harden rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +697
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +413
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,379
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 4.57×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 39.5%
- Peak was 1921 (81)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.9% average annual change
Spellings of Harden
Harden is not the most common spelling — Aiden is, with 12.3% against Harden's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Harden is used
Across 1910–2025, Harden was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 293,855 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 5Alabama1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Louisiana1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Harden has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harden around the world
Where Harden ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2015–2023#5,071in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Harden by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Harden
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harden
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.