Attard
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Attard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār, “drugist”), through either Sicilian and/or Italian.
- FIFinland1 in 206K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 378K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
881 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Arabic عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār, “drugist”), through either Sicilian and/or Italian.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Attard 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.
881 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
- Rémy Attardb. 1942FRFrench politician
- Edward Attardb. 1947MTwriter
- Monica Attardb. 1958AUAustralian journalist
- Karen Attardb. 1958AUAustralian writer of fantasy and short fiction
- Fabio Attardb. 1959MTMaltese Catholic priest
- Josette Attardb. 1960MTMaltese Academic and author
- Lawrence Attardb. 1966MTMaltese association football player
- Isabelle Attardb. 1969FRFrench researcher and politician
- Ronnie Attardb. 1999USAmerican ice hockey player
- Frans A. AttardMTMaltese author and translator
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 881 | #27,392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 870 | #29,042 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 825 | #27,496 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 45 | #48,297 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 45 | #47,706 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #39,503 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 9 | #74,776 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #51,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #174,452 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Attard mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic عَطَّار (ʕaṭṭār, “drugist”), through either Sicilian and/or Italian. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Attard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 881 people named Attard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled attard.
- Where is Attard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Attard is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Attard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 881 people named Attard in 2010, about 1 in 378 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/attardThe 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, “Attard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.