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The HARDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 233 76700 0 1
United States (1880 census) 87 34482 0 2
Change since 1880 +146 -42218 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 164 9071 0.001 10
United Kingdom 783 6366 0.002 17
Top States for HARDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 44 49996 0.000 1
Kansas 30 11292 0.001 11
Washington 20 35263 0.000 3
Texas 18 57043 0.000 1
Ohio 17 62184 0.000 1
Top States for HARDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kansas 30 11292 0.001 11
Utah 11 16476 0.000 5
Maine 6 20337 0.000 5
Washington 20 35263 0.000 3
Arizona 12 41820 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HARDS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HARDS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HARDS in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HARDS by picking someone at random in Kansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HARDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HARDS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HARDS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HARDS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 206 88.41
White (Hispanic) 13 5.58
Black/African American 5 2.15
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HARDS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HARDS in historical publications

HARDS. The Sussex family so designated originally wrote themselves Hardres, and they are known to have been of that family.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HARDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HARDS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HARDS

The following words are slight variants of HARDS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.