Bård

Locally spelled Bard in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Bård is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian

  Also written Bard, Baard, Bàrd, Bârd, Bārd

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Bárd, Bard

• Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, United Kingdom

  Also written Bard, Bárd

• Finnish given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States

  Also written Bard

• Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Bard

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Bård is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, a border, edging (decorative strip, often along an edge, but also more generally, usually on wallpaper, fabric, clothing, or furniture)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Bård Guttormssonb. 1150NONorwegian politician
• Bård Tufte Johansenb. 1969NONorwegian comedian
• Bård Vegar Solhjellb. 1971NONorwegian politician
• Bård Breienb. 1971NONorwegian filmmaker
• Bård Borgersenb. 1972NONorwegian footballer
• Bård Hoksrudb. 1973NONorwegian politician
• Bård Faustb. 1974NONorwegian drummer
• Bård Nestengb. 1979NOarcher
• Bård Ylvisåkerb. 1982NONorwegian artist and comedian
• Bård Finneb. 1995NONorwegian football player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Bård mean, and where does it come from?

a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Bård?

In Norwegian /boːːr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Bård a male or female name?

Bård is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Norway (SSB).

In which country does Bård have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Bård in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bård.

How common is the name Bård?

In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Bård in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

How common is Bård compared with other names?

In Norway, Bård is the 324th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.