Harding

Where Harding comes from

Harding hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,496 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Peak, #391
    229 babies named Harding — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1922
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #674.
  4. 1981
    Harding Nana born
    Cameroonian basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Harding Nana · Cameroonian basketball player, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.