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Hardin

#2,117 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hardin has been given to 1,330 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,117 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Hardin, 2025

1 in 48,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hardin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hardin means

Hardin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hardin is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,330 boys were recorded with the name Hardin between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 2021; its best national rank was #774 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,170 in 2020 to #2,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,757 in 2015 to #2,117 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hardin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,000
69 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,117
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hardin 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 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,304 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hardin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hardins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hardin was born before 1958 — so the typical Hardin is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
736
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Choose a decade

2020s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (513).

Is Hardin 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
−403
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+10,640
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
13.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.7%
Peak was 2021 (99)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#774
1880

Spellings of Hardin

Hardin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 33.0% against Hardin's 0.14%.

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 Hardin is used

Across 2016–2025, Hardin was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 44,044 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 8,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 12,500
  3. 3Alabama1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Missouri1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 33,333

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.

Hardin around the world

Where Hardin 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
    2021–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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

Hardin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 53
Best rank ever
#774
1880
Peak year
2021
99 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,330
Count in 2025
69

Names similar to Hardin

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

HaroonHarmanHarlonHarlinHaraldHardenHarlowHardingHartleyHarlenHarlemHarunHarisHarlynHarborKaydinHarounHarukiHarvieHarvardHarutoHartHarmonHarvin

Sibling names for Hardin

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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