Hardy

Meaning: Bold, daring
Origin: English surname — From an Old French nickname

Boy's name · #2496 in the US (2025) · Timeless

Popularity over time

Hardy holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#2496 in 2025). About 5,800 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 2 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,143 in Sweden (2025) · #2,014 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,789 in Canada (2025) · #2,303 in Ecuador (2024) · #4,657 in France (2022) · #2,431 in Austria (2019).

Famous Hardys

Hardy Krüger — German actor (1928–2022)
Hardy Krüger Jr. — German actor (born 1968)
Hardy Fox — American musician (1945–2018)
Hardy Nickerson — American football player (born 1965)
Hardy Rawls — American actor (born 1952)

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 80,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Thomas Hardy — English novelist and poet (1840–1928)
Tom Hardy — British actor (born 1977)
G.H. Hardy — British mathematician (1877–1947)

What Hardys become

Among 145 notable people named Hardy:

Entertainers appear 1.6× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hardy Krüger, German actor (1928–2022).

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