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The surname Hardacre

An English place surname, carried by 475 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H632

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hardacre is more common than 72.2% of them.

Origin

English origin

Topographic surname for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard (“hard”) + aker (“acre, field”).

Hardacre is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 475 people named Hardacre in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 649,991 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 456.

#45,105
rank among US surnames
475
people in 2010
0.2
per 100,000 Americans
+4.2%
change since 2000 (was #44,430)

Who is named Hardacre

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

96% of people named Hardacre identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hardacre

Hardacre has the Soundex code H632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H632.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hardacre come from?
Topographic surname for someone who lived on a patch of poor, stony land, from Middle English hard (“hard”) + aker (“acre, field”).
How common is the surname Hardacre?
475 people in the United States had the surname Hardacre in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 649,991 Americans. It ranked 45,105th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hardacre?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hardacre identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Hardacre?
Hardacre is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hardacre getting more or less common?
More common. 456 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 475 in 2010, up 4.2%.