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Hardie

Boys' name

Son of the craftsman

Hardie has been given to 644 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Hardie, 1979

1 in 665,000

Hardie over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hardie: meaning, origin, and history

Son of the craftsman

surname transfer

What Hardie means

Hardie means “son of the craftsman”, associated with ardaidh.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Scottish variant of Hardy. Also shortened from McHardie, Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic mac C(h)ardaidh (“son of the craftsman”), from ceardaí.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hardie (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hardie is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Hardie comes through Scottish Gaelic mac.

Hardie is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hardy and McHardie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 644 boys were recorded with the name Hardie between 1880 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1921; its best national rank was #797 in 1886.

How common is Hardie?

Hardie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1979
1 in 665,000
5 of 3,326,731 births
Among boys only
1 in 344,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1979
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,184 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hardie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 461,184 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hardie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hardies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hardie was born before 1928 — so the typical Hardie is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
106
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1920s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Hardie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1921 (31)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#797
1886

Spellings of Hardie

Hardie is not the most common spelling — Charlie is, with 71.1% against Hardie's 0.25%.

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 Hardie is used

Across 1910–2025, Hardie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 490,346 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Hardie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hardie around the world

Where Hardie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2018
    #4,749
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Hardie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#797
1886
Peak year
1921
31 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
644
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hardie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hardie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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