Cross vs Hardy

Cross

name
  • An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. 

  • A hamlet in Goodleigh parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS6034). 

  • An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States. 

  • A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin, United States. 

  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road. 

  • A hamlet in St Dominick parish, east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4067) 

  • A hamlet in Georgeham parish, North Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS4539). 

  • A hamlet north of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3936). 

  • A village in Compton Bishop parish, Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4154). 

  • A settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB5062). 

  • A village and townland in County Clare, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 

  • A village in County Mayo, Ireland, Irish spelling An Chrois. 

Hardy

name
  • An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia. 

  • A township in Holmes County, Ohio. 

  • A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska. 

  • A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy. 

  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet. 

  • A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. 

  • A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia. 

  • A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. 

  • A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana. 

  • An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi. 

  • An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky. 

  • A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person. 

  • A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

How often have the words Cross and Hardy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )