In 2025, 5 US boys were named Harding, making it the 12,697th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,738 places from #7,959 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 10 boys named Harding in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #391, reached in 1920. The most boys given the name in a single year was 235, in 1921. For comparison, it was #11,184 in 2015 and #2,260 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harding in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 1,123 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 695 babies named Harding.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 40 US boys were named Harding; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.