Hardin
Hardin was given to 69 boys in 2025, #2,117 among boys’ names; 1,330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hardin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hardin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hardin is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hardin?
#2,117 among boys’ names, 2025
Hardin rose from #12,757 in 2015 to #2,117 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 40.4 per million.
99 babies in 2021, the peak
Hardin peaked in 2021, when 99 boys were given it, #1,671 among boys’ names. The 69 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,117 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 97 | #1,714 | 56.3 |
| 2023 | 95 | #1,738 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 89 | #1,817 | 51.0 |
| 2021 | 99 | #1,671 | 56.6 |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,170 | 37.1 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,650 | 8.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,956 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,148 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,757 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,066 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,085 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,035 | 3.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,028 | 2.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,306 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,697 | 3.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,624 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,785 | 4.3 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,512 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,999 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,644 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,707 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,685 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,275 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,447 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,980 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,951 | 4.2 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,231 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,385 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,723 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,550 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,086 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,602 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,449 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,954 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,556 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,654 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,914 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,263 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,752 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,724 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,175 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,531 | 6.6 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,825 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,987 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,943 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,238 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,954 | 6.3 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,250 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,744 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,452 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,841 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,538 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,740 | 8.7 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,510 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,715 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,928 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,076 | 14.2 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,635 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,242 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,084 | 14.1 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,523 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,080 | 39.5 |
| 1921 | 73 | #793 | 66.3 |
| 1920 | 51 | #968 | 47.9 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,548 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,209 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,342 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,800 | 19.1 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,824 | 18.9 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,339 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,729 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,670 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,450 | 31.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,112 | 47.1 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,202 | 40.8 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,103 | 44.5 |
| 1891 | 6 | #895 | 59.3 |
| 1888 | 6 | #969 | 49.6 |
| 1887 | 5 | #988 | 49.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #881 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 5 | #930 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 7 | #774 | 63.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hardin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hardin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hardin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hardin, and how old are they?
An estimated 741 Americans named Hardin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (56% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 353 people named Hardin (23 women and girls, 330 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,183 babies since 1880, Hardin is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 69 of their 112 babies (62%), again the most given.
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.
More about Hardin and names like it
- Compare Hardin and HardenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHardin peaked in 2021.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hardin since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Hardin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hardin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.