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This is what ancestry.com has to say -
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?&fid=10&ln=Hardin&fn=&yr=1920
Hardin doesn't register as a surname in the UK, but is well represented in the US, so I think that any contribution to the surnames popularity made by the place names Harden (England and Scotland) must be considered negligible.