Nygård

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a habitational surname from locations

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nygård is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 411(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 10K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.3Kas Nygaard

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 Nygård 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)

13,318 people

Sources
219 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NygaardLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nygaard in US United States, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 1 more.

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)

a habitational surname from locations

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nygård 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.

Where Nygård is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#3913,3181 in 41113KNygaard86
DK Denmark#484,452as Nygaard1 in 1.3K4.5KNygaard141
FI Finland—4,3321 in 1.3K4.3KNygård16
US United States—2,752as Nygaard1 in 121K2.8KNygaard219
SE Sweden#8859811 in 10K981Nygård28
TN Tunisia—≈280 est.≈1 in 41K—Nygaard2

13,318 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling nygård. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nygård is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, Finland

    Also written Nygard, Nygârd

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Nygard

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Nygärd, Nygārd, Nygard

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Egypt, Sweden

    Also written Nygard

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway

    Also written Nygard, Найгард

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Norway

    Also written Nygard

29 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Hildur Krog, b. 1922Peter Nygård, b. 1941Ottar Nygård, b. 1951Per Egil Nygård, b. 1954Jon-Ivar Nygård, b. 1973Petri Nygård, b. 1974Jens Nygård, b. 1978Mathias Nygård, b. 1982Joakim Nygård, b. 1993Michael Brandsegg-Nygård, b. 2005

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 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Nygård
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—13K#48
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—4.3K#432
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—1.9K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—981#1,015
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—300#1,591

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Nygård mean, and where does it come from?
a habitational surname from locations Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Nygård have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Nygård, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nygaard.
Where is Nygård most common?
Nygård is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 411 people carrying it.
How common is the name Nygård?
In Norway, the national register counted 13,318 people named Nygård, about 1 in 411 residents.
How common is Nygård compared with other names?
In Norway, Nygård is the 39th most common surname of 90,139 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, “Nygård” — the 39th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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