Legárd
surname · Latin script
Legárd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: female personal name Liutgard (borne by Charlemagne’s wife), composed of the elements Hut people, tribe + gard enclosure, which was introduced into England in this form by the Normans.
- NONorway1 in 249K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 889K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
374 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
female personal name Liutgard (borne by Charlemagne’s wife), composed of the elements Hut people, tribe + gard enclosure, which was introduced into England in this form by the Normans. In some cases it may be a var. of Ledger 1, with an excrescent dental. See also Leggatt. Cogns.: Ger.: Lauckhardt, Luckard, Leukart; Leickard, Leikart, Leichart, Leikert, Leichert (Bavaria).
Sources 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Legárd 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 | 374 | 1 in 889K | 405 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
374 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 Legárd mean, and where does it come from?
- female personal name Liutgard (borne by Charlemagne’s wife), composed of the elements Hut people, tribe + gard enclosure, which was introduced into England in this form by the Normans. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Legárd have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 374 people named Legárd, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Legárd most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Legárd is densest in Norway — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Legárd?
- In the United States, the national register counted 374 people named Legárd in 2010, about 1 in 889 thousand residents.
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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, “Legárd”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.