Hardy

Hardy is the 409th most common surname in the United States, shared by 77,922 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,836.

By the numbers

People: 77,922
Rank: 409th
How common: 1 in 3,836
Per 100,000: 26.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hardy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 59.6%
Black, not Hispanic 31.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)English novelist and poet
Tom Hardy (born 1977)British actor
G.H. Hardy (1877–1947)British mathematician
Françoise Hardy (1944–2024)French singer
Oliver Hardy (1892–1957)American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
Matt Hardy (born 1974)American professional wrestler
Robert Hardy (1925–2017)British actor
Ben Hardy (born 1991)British actor

People named Hardy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hardy

Also a first name

Hardy has been given to 5,831 American babies as a first name since 1880, 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.