as a Last Name
- 28,612
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Harden
Meaning & Origins
English (mainly southeastern England): habitational name from Harden in West Yorkshire, which gets its name from Old English hara ‘hare’ or hær ‘rock’ + denu ‘valley’. Harden in Staffordshire, recorded in the Middle Ages as Haworthyn, Harwerthyn (from Old English hēah ‘high’ + worðign ‘enclosure’), was probably not reduced to its modern form early enough to lie behind any examples of the surname.
| 1,242nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,612
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Harden per capita
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