Hardie
Hardie was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 644 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hardie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hardie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hardie is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Scottish variant of Hardy. Also shortened from McHardie, Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic mac C(h)ardaidh (“son of the craftsman”), from ceardaí.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hardie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,420, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1921, the peak
Hardie peaked in 1921, when 31 boys were given it, #1,342 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | #6,420 | 2.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,205 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,126 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,203 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,370 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,754 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,565 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,852 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,601 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,787 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 12 | #2,301 | 6.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,743 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,258 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,163 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,129 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,564 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,317 | 3.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,309 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,031 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,746 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,594 | 6.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,293 | 4.9 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,385 | 8.6 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,000 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,027 | 11.7 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,022 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,114 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,315 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,119 | 6.8 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,868 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,530 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,964 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,866 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,250 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,320 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,232 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,634 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,012 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,927 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,061 | 14.6 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,353 | 27.6 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,342 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,524 | 23.5 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,593 | 22.4 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,782 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,046 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,888 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,930 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,469 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,533 | 25.4 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,624 | 26.6 |
| 1907 | 11 | #838 | 74.9 |
| 1903 | 8 | #868 | 67.1 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,226 | 39.9 |
| 1898 | 8 | #838 | 65.2 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,024 | 49.4 |
| 1886 | 7 | #797 | 63.2 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,000 | 44.0 |
| 1881 | 5 | #929 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 5 | #971 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hardie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hardie has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hardie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hardie, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Hardie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 228 people named Hardie (15 women and girls, 213 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,475 babies since 1880, Hardie is the second most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 54 babies recorded by SSA was a Hardie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hardie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hardie and names like it
- Compare Hardie and HardyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHardie peaked in 1921.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hardie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hardie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Hardie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hardie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.