Westgård
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ʋes̪t̪go:d`/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Westgård is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 237K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- USUnited States1 in 959K
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 Westgård 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)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 237K (inferred from the name graph)
1,232 named Westgaard
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Westgaard in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden and 3 more and Westgard 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Westgård 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 | #474 | 1,232as Westgaard | 1 in 4.4K | 1.2K | Westgaard | 55 |
| US United States | — | 347 | 1 in 959K | 347 | Westgaard | 59 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43 | 1 in 237K | 43 | Westgaard | 10 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Westgaard | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 6 | Westgaard | 7 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 642K | — | Westgaard | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | Westgard | 10 |
1,232 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- Trygve Westgårdb. 1948NONorwegian politician
- Thomas Hjalmar Westgårdb. 1995IEIrish cross-country skier
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1K | #1,112 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #14,269 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,973 |
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
- How do you pronounce Westgård?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋes̪t̪go:d`/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Westgård have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Westgaard, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Westgård most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Westgård is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 237 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Westgård?
- In the United States, the national register counted 347 people named Westgård in 2010, about 1 in 959 thousand residents.
- How common is Westgård compared with other names?
- In Norway, Westgård is the 474th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Westgård?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/westg%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, “Westgård” — the 474th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.