Gardener
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old Northern French *gardinier corresponding to Old French, Modern French jardinier ‘gardener’; first attested Anger gardiner a 1166 Seals (L)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ɡɑɹdnɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gardener is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Old Northern French *gardinier corresponding to Old French, Modern French jardinier ‘gardener’; first attested Anger gardiner a 1166 Seals (L)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Gardener is also recorded in 5 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 AngloNorman French gardinier ‘gardener’. In medieval times this normally denoted a cultivator of edible produce in an orchard or kitchen garden, rather than one who tended ornamental lawns and flower beds.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Americanized form of French Desjardins or German Gartner (see Gartner).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, 'Person who tends a garden'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In enm, gardener (one who tends a garden)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Julian Royceb. 1870GBnot in their usual nameBritish actor (1866–1946)
- G. W. Gardenerb. 1900GBbadminton player
- Victor Gardenerb. 1901GBBritish actor
- Edward P. M. Gardenerb. 1947GBauthor
- Mark Gardenerb. 1969GBBritish musician
- Daryl Gardenerb. 1973USAmerican football player
- Jason Gardenerb. 1975GBBritish Olympic sprinter
- Michael Gardenerb. 1981USAmerican basketball player (born 1981)
- Michael Gardenerb. 1986JMJamaican athletics competitor
- Stefano Gardenerb. 1990ITItalian 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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,838 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 76 | #549 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 29 | #153 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #83,035 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #101,623 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,500 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gardener mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old Northern French *gardinier corresponding to Old French, Modern French jardinier ‘gardener’; first attested Anger gardiner a 1166 Seals (L) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gardener?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑɹdnɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gardener have the most bearers?
- Gardener is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gardenerThe 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, “Gardener”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.