The Hardi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 144 people carried this name — #120,187 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,000,000 people counted. That is down 15% from 170 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
271 people named Hardi live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 110 people named Hardi.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
21 people named Hardi is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Hardi,
with a public archive behind them.
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Árpád Hardi Molnár 1906–1988 · aircraft pilot
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Ahmad Hardi 1922–2006 · writer
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Mihajlo Hardi 1948– · poet
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Hardi 1951–2023 · painter
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Richárd Hardi 1958– · physician
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Titusz Hardi 1962– · Catholic priest
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hardi.
- Harant 111 · U.S. census
- Harari 1,030 · U.S. census
- Harcourt 1,091 · U.S. census
- Hard 3,085 · U.S. census
- Hardel 237 · U.S. census
- Hardeman 4,565 · U.S. census
- Harding 39,787 · U.S. census
- Hardy 80,252 · U.S. census
- Hare 16,304 · U.S. census
- Harel 506 · U.S. census
- Haren 1,041 · U.S. census
- Hari 804 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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