Hoggard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person employed to look after pigs; swineherd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hoggard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 28Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 40K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 48Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
3,239 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)person employed to look after pigs; swineherd.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hoggard 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 | — | 3,239 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Hoggard | 289 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | Hoggard | 110 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Hoggard | 47 |
| LR Liberia | #491 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hoggard | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Hoggard | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Hoggard | 31 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Hoggard | 1 |
3,239 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hoggard is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE hogg + hierde ‘swine-herd’; first attested William Hoggehird 1279 AssNb
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, occupational name for a swineherd or shepherd, from Middle English hog(ge) ‘hog’, ‘swine’ or hogg ‘yearling sheep’ -i- herd, hard ‘herdsman’, but see also Hogarth.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, swine, from ME hog (see Hogg) + herd, hard herdsman (see Heard). Var.: Hoggart. See also Hogarth. Hoghton see Hutton
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- J. David Hoggardb. 1914USAmerican executive director and community activist
- Russ Hoggardb. 1929NZNew Zealand athletics coach
- Jay Hoggardb. 1954USAmerican musician
- D.D. Hoggardb. 1961USfootball player (born 1961)
- Andrew Hoggardb. 1974NZNew Zealand politician
- Jacob Hoggardb. 1984CACanadian musician
- Alfonso Hoggardb. 1989USAmerican football player
- Mark Hoggardresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4310-3862
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,859 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,656 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Hoggard mean, and where does it come from?
- person employed to look after pigs; swineherd. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hoggard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Hoggard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoggard.
- How common is the name Hoggard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,239 people named Hoggard in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoggard compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Hoggard is the 491st most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoggardThe 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, “Hoggard” — the 491st most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.