Hardin

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Hardin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 97 births. Its best rank was 774th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 970.01% of boys
Peak year: 202199 births
Best rank: #774in 1880
Since 1880: 1,261people given the name

Babies named Hardin, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,261 boys have been named Hardin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 99 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 2020s alone account for 35%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Hardin
1880s	29
1890s	21
1910s	119
1920s	264
1930s	63
1940s	98
1950s	79
1960s	47
1970s	19
1980s	5
2000s	16
2010s	57
2020s	444

In 2021, its biggest year

Hardin was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Hardin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.