Gjerde
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse gerdi ‘enclosed land’ (i.e
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdʒɝd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gjerde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 806(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 262K
- DKDenmark1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 806 (inferred from the name graph)
6,782 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse gerdi ‘enclosed land’ (i.e. pasture).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gjerde 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 6,782 | 1 in 806 | 6.8K | Gjerde | 6 |
| US United States | 596 | 1 in 558K | 615 | Gjerde | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 15 | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | — |
6,782 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gjerde 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a fence
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bjartmar Gjerdeb. 1931NONorwegian politician (1931-2009)
- Barry Gjerdeb. 1951NONorwegian actor
- Kristina Gjerdeb. 1956USAmerican high seas policy advisor (1957–2025)
- Jan Olav Gjerdeb. 1958NONorwegian politician
- Morten Gjerdeb. 1964NONorwegian photographer
- Ingrid Margrethe Gjerdeb. 1968NONorwegian army officer
- Jan Magne Gjerdeb. 1973NONorwegian archaeologist
- Øyvind Gjerdeb. 1977NONorwegian footballer
- Erlend Gjerdeb. 1978NONorwegian musician and manager
- Henrik Ødemarkb. 2003NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian association 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gjerde come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse gerdi ‘enclosed land’ (i.e. pasture). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gjerde?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdʒɝd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Gjerde mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from Old Norse gerdi ‘enclosed land’ (i.e.
- In which country does Gjerde have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Gjerde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gjerde.
- Where is Gjerde most common?
- Gjerde is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 806 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gjerde?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6,782 people named Gjerde, about 1 in 806 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gjerdeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gjerde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.