Hardie
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hardie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 2. Scottish: shortened form of McHardie, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac C(h)ardaidh, possibly ‘son of the craftsman’, from ceardaiche.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
- CACanada≈1 in 39K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 329 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
2. Scottish: shortened form of McHardie, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac C(h)ardaidh, possibly ‘son of the craftsman’, from ceardaiche.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hardie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Hardie | 9 |
| US United States | 4,071 | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Hardie | 329 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Hardie | 184 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hardie | 158 |
| CA Canada | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Hardie | 117 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hardie | 78 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hardie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the nickname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
variant spelling of Hardy
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In nrm, feminine singular of hardi (“rash”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, feminine singular of hardi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Keir Hardieb. 1856GBScottish socialist and labour leader (1856–1915)
- Russell Hardieb. 1904USAmerican actor (1904-1973)
- Michael Hardie Boysb. 1931NZ17th Governor-General of New Zealand (1931–2023)
- Kate Hardieb. 1969GBBritish actress
- Kelly Hardieb. 1969AUsoftball player
- Giles Hardieb. 1975AUAustralian film critic
- John Hardieb. 1988NZNew Zealand rugby union player
- Grant Hardieb. 1992GBScottish curler
- Ryan Hardieb. 1997GBScottish association football player (born 1997)
- Benedict Hardieactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,367 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hardie mean, and where does it come from?
- 2. Scottish: shortened form of McHardie, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac C(h)ardaidh, possibly ‘son of the craftsman’, from ceardaiche. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hardie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Hardie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hardie.
- How common is the name Hardie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,071 people named Hardie in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hardie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.