Hardy vs Welsh

Hardy

name
  • 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. 

  • An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia. 

  • 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. 

Welsh

name
  • An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler. 

  • An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh. 

  • An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt. 

  • A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh. 

noun
  • The people of Wales. 

  • The Welsh language. 

  • A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon. 

adj
  • Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. (See Derived terms.) 

  • (Native) British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation. 

  • Of or pertaining to Wales. 

  • Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. 

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