# Hardie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hardie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “son of the craftsman” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 644 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 644 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Scottish variant of Hardy. Also shortened from McHardie, Anglicized from Scottish Gaelic mac C(h)ardaidh (“son of the craftsman”), from ceardaí.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 7 | 3,130 |
| 1949 | 13 | 2,164 |
| 1950 | 12 | 2,259 |
| 1951 | 9 | 2,744 |
| 1952 | 12 | 2,302 |
| 1953 | 9 | 2,788 |
| 1954 | 6 | 3,602 |
| 1955 | 9 | 2,853 |
| 1958 | 11 | 2,566 |
| 1960 | 10 | 2,755 |
| 1965 | 7 | 3,371 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,204 |
| 1969 | 6 | 4,127 |
| 1971 | 5 | 5,207 |
| 1979 | 5 | 6,422 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |

## People named Hardie

- Hardie Albright, American actor (1903–1975)
- Thomas Hardie Chalmers, American opera singer (1884-1966)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.