Gãrd
surname · Latin script
Gãrd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’.
- SESweden1 in 23K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 39K
- IEIreland≈1 in 40Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gãrd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
4,729 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Faroe Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gard in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more, Gaard in DK Denmark, FO Faroe Islands and Gård in NO Norway.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’.
Cited for this meaning 8
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gãrd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,729 | 1 in 70K | 4.9K | Gard | 320 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 98 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Gard | 113 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gard | 106 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Gard | 71 |
| NO Norway | — | 440as Gaard | 1 in 12K | 4.6K | Gård | 73 |
| SE Sweden | — | 435 | 1 in 23K | 436 | Gard | 25 |
| DK Denmark | — | 187as Gaard | 1 in 31K | 187 | Gaard | 44 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #320 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Gaard | 2 |
4,729 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gãrd mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Gãrd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Gãrd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gard.
- How common is the name Gãrd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,729 people named Gãrd in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Gãrd compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Gãrd is the 320th most common surname of 497 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gãrd” — the 320th most common surname in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.