Hardy Family History
Hardy Name Meaning
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).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’.Scottish: variant spelling of Hardie 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hardy Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hardy families
 299 - 595  100 - 298 |
 1 - 99  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hardy families
|
1,735 - 3,468 579 - 1,734 |
1 - 578 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hardy families
|
45 - 87 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hardy Family Origin
Hardy Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hardy
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Hardy Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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