Gårder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: indefinite plural of gård
Gårder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 46K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.9M
- NONorway1 in 4.4Kas Gaarder
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gårder 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
1,240 named Gaarder
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaarder in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden and Garder in DK Denmark.
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)
indefinite plural of gård
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gårder 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 | #607 | 1,240as Gaarder | 1 in 4.4K | 1.2K | Gaarder | 45 |
| US United States | — | 362as Gaarder | 1 in 919K | 362 | Gaarder | 60 |
| DK Denmark | — | 128 | 1 in 46K | 128 | Garder | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29as Gaarder | 1 in 352K | 29 | Gaarder | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 7 | — | — |
1,240 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Agnes Gårderb. 1893SESwedish singer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 124 | #12,602 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,163 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Gårder mean, and where does it come from?
- indefinite plural of gård Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gårder have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gaarder, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gårder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gårder is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gårder?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 128 people named Gårder, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Gårder compared with other names?
- In Norway, Gårder is the 607th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A5rderThe 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, “Gårder” — the 607th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.