Harding
At the 2020 census, 38,220 Americans bore the surname Harding — 899th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,820.
By the numbers
- People
- 38,220
- Rank
- 899th
- How common
- 1 in 7,820
- Per 100,000
- 12.8
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
Originally a patronymic from Hardy or from compound given names with the Germanic element *hard (“hard”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Harding described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Harding
- Warren G. Harding (1865–1923)president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- Karl Ludwig Harding (1765–1834)German astronomer
- Tonya Harding (born 1970)American figure skater
- Florence Harding (1860–1924)First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- Ian Harding (born 1986)American actor
- Ann Harding (1902–1981)American actress
- Sarah Harding (1981–2021)British singer and actress
- Sandra Harding (1935–2025)American philosopher of feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and epistemology
People named Harding with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Harding
Also a first name
Harding has been given to 1,123 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.