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The hardy Surname

hardy Name Meaning and History

  1. English, Scottish, and French: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold’, ‘courageous’ (of Germanic origin; compare Hard 1).
  2. Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
  3. Scottish: variant spelling of Hardie 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hardy Families in the US in 1920
Number of hardy families
 299-595
 100-298		 1-99
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Charles S. Hardy Valina Higgins 7
Family website looking for others with Hardy in their family tree. kidtaxi 5
Oliver N. Hardy of Ohio v_leighty 0
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Alonzo Monroe Jefferson Hardy brooksdl 1
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