# Hardaway (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hardaway/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 5,163 |
| US rank (2010) | 6,562 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 59,800 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.7% (4,793 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hardaway in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 31% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 64% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hardaway in the United States and Ghana.

## People named Hardaway

- Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
- Tim Hardaway, American basketball player (born 1966)
- Tim Hardaway Jr., American basketball player (born 1992)
- Ben Hardaway, American story artist and voice actor (1895-1957)
- Stevie Wonder, American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)

## Similar surnames

Hardy, Hardee, Hardie, Harty, Hard, Hardt, Harada, Howard, Hart, Huerta, Heard, Hurt.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.