Gammelgaard
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Gammelgaard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.6Mfew records
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 Gammelgaard 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,214 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gammelgaard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #226 | 1,214 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.2K | Gammelgaard | 86 |
| FI Finland | — | 140as Gammelgård | 1 in 40K | 140 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | — | Gammelgaard | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 64as Gammelgård | 1 in 159K | 64 | Gammelgaard | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 6.2M | — | Gammelgaard | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | 3 |
1,214 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Albert Gammelgaardb. 1897DKDanish painter (1897-1963)
- Arne Gammelgaardb. 1928DKDanisch teacher, regional historian, writer and translator
- Jørgen Gammelgaardb. 1938DKfurniture designer
- Niels Gammelgaardb. 1944DKDanisch designer (born 1944)
- Lars P. Gammelgaardb. 1945DKDanish politician (1945-1994)
- Per Gammelgaardb. 1948DKDanish poet
- Bente Gammelgaardb. 1956DKDanish pharmaceutical scientist
- Inger Gammelgaard Madsenb. 1960DKDanish graphic designer and detective novelist
- TopGunnb. 1991DKnot in their usual nameDanish rapper
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 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 1.2K | #322 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #28,371 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Gammelgaard have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gammelgaard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gammelgaard.
- Where is Gammelgaard most common?
- Gammelgaard is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gammelgaard?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,214 people named Gammelgaard, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Gammelgaard compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Gammelgaard is the 226th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gammelgaardThe 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, “Gammelgaard” — the 226th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.