Prestegård
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a vicarage; many are large old buildings, now preserved, possibly with farms attached
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/prəstəɡoːːr/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Prestegård is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 8.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
632 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Prestegard in US United States.
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 vicarage; many are large old buildings, now preserved, possibly with farms attached.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Prestegård 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 | 632 | 1 in 8.7K | 632 | Prestegård | 19 |
| US United States | 217 | 1 in 1.5M | 217 | Prestegard | 12 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
632 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; 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)- Gunnar Prestegårdb. 1935NONorwegian politician and priest
- Elly Prestegårdb. 1951NONorwegian artist
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 632 | #2,012 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #382,766 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Prestegård mean, and where does it come from?
- a vicarage; many are large old buildings, now preserved, possibly with farms attached. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Prestegård?
- In Norwegian /prəstəɡoːːr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Prestegård have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 632 people named Prestegård, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prestegård.
- Where is Prestegård most common?
- Prestegård is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Prestegård?
- In Norway, the national register counted 632 people named Prestegård, about 1 in 8.7 thousand 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/presteg%C3%A5rdThe 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, “Prestegård”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.