Hardie

Where Hardie comes from

Scottish variant of Hardy. Also shortened from McHardie, Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic mac C(h)ardaidh (“son of the craftsman”), from ceardaí.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hardie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #758
    7 babies named Hardie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1903
    Hardie Albright born
    American actor
  5. 1907
    Hardie Scott born
    American politician
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Hardie Albright · American actor, 1903–1975
  • Hardie Scott · American politician, 1907–1999

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.