Harding
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1920 · 229 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,123since 1913
Harding over time
Rank among boys' names. Harding has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
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| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #10,662 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
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| 1971 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,935 | 6 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
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| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | #2,822 | 9 |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #2,531 | 10 |
| 1952 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #2,135 | 13 |
| 1950 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #1,656 | 20 |
| 1947 | #1,519 | 24 |
| 1946 | #1,813 | 16 |
| 1945 | #1,852 | 14 |
| 1944 | #2,195 | 11 |
| 1943 | #1,910 | 15 |
| 1942 | #1,682 | 18 |
| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #3,549 | 5 |
| 1935 | #3,645 | 5 |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #3,022 | 8 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #2,523 | 11 |
| 1926 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #2,588 | 11 |
| 1924 | #1,263 | 33 |
| 1923 | #860 | 62 |
| 1922 | #674 | 92 |
| 1921 | #396 | 235 |
| 1920 | #391 | 229 |
| 1919 | #1,351 | 28 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #2,188 | 13 |
| 1916 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | #2,829 | 8 |
| 1914 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,496 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Harding! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Harding is popular in 1921
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#185 · 1 in 1,185
- North Carolina#193 · 1 in 1,332
- Mississippi#198 · 1 in 1,242
- Virginia#219 · 1 in 1,893
- Arkansas#235 · 1 in 1,490
Best ever in a state: #160 in Virginia, 1920.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #185 | 22 | 1 in 1,185 |
| North Carolina | #193 | 25 | 1 in 1,332 |
| Mississippi | #198 | 15 | 1 in 1,242 |
| Virginia | #219 | 13 | 1 in 1,893 |
| Arkansas | #235 | 12 | 1 in 1,490 |
| South Carolina | #240 | 10 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Oklahoma | #243 | 14 | 1 in 1,641 |
| Tennessee | #299 | 9 | 1 in 2,746 |
| Kentucky | #301 | 10 | 1 in 2,632 |
| Louisiana | #302 | 9 | 1 in 2,111 |
| West Virginia | #345 | 5 | 1 in 3,366 |
| Texas | #367 | 19 | 1 in 2,754 |
| Missouri | #423 | 5 | 1 in 5,870 |
| California | #460 | 5 | 1 in 5,701 |
| Illinois | #460 | 6 | 1 in 9,360 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Harding
- 4,243 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #12,008)
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 1,364 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 960 spots in 1920 (#1,351 → #391)
- Biggest drop: 403 spots in 1924 (#860 → #1,263)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1920 at #391 (229 births)
- Births halved by 1922, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1920–1923
- Highest: 1 in 4,648 boys born in 1920 were named Harding (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 61.9% of all boys named Harding (695) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 70 | #1,351 (1919) | #2,523 |
| 1920s | 695 | #391 (1920) | #1,873 |
| 1930s | 44 | #3,022 (1930) | #3,511 |
| 1940s | 130 | #1,519 (1947) | #2,128 |
| 1950s | 82 | #2,135 (1951) | #3,033 |
| 1960s | 27 | #2,617 (1965) | #3,540 |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,375 (1971) | #4,375 |
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 6 | #10,662 (2006) | #10,662 |
| 2010s | 28 | #10,644 (2015) | #11,302 |
| 2020s | 29 | #7,765 (2024) | #9,760 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Harding in 1921
Top boys' names in 1921
More about 1921
boys
1,101,449 boys got a published name in 1921; 1 in 4,687 of them was named Harding, which outranked 92.1% of the 4,985 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.