Hardy

Where Hardy comes from

* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). * As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hardy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #392 among boys — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #332
    26 babies named Hardy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #752.
  4. 1928
    Hardy Krüger born
    German actor
  5. 1968
    Hardy Krüger Jr. born
    German actor
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Hardy Krüger · German actor, 1928–2022
  • Hardy Krüger Jr. · German actor, born 1968
  • Hardy Binguila · Congolese footballer, born 1996
  • Hardy Cross · American engineer, 1885–1959
  • Hardy Åström · Swedish ice hockey player, born 1951

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.