Gardin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: French, northern Italian (Venice), and Spanish; metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from Old French gardin ‘garden’, or an Italian or Spanish cognate

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɡɑɹdɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gardin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Falkland Islands (Malvinas) it is the 93rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 375K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 42K
  • BEBelgium1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,154 people

Sources
182 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French, northern Italian (Venice), and Spanish; metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from Old French gardin ‘garden’, or an Italian or Spanish cognate.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gardin 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.

Where Gardin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—2,1541 in 98K2.2K—3
FR France—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 42K238—3
US United States—8861 in 375K886Gardin182
IT Italy—≈820 est.≈1 in 77KlistedGardin20
BE Belgium—2691 in 44K274Gardin11
FI Finland—421 in 133K42—1
FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas)#93———Gardin1

2,154 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gardin is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Russia, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Russian, Chinese

    Also written Гардин, Gårdìn, Gardín, Gärdin

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Gardín, Gärdin

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gärdin

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, India, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gärdin

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Gardín

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gärdin

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Gärdin

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gardin 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 Italian, variante dialetal setentrional, redução de Gardino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In fro, garden (large outdoor area with plants and trees)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, a curtain (in front of a window)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a curtain

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, curtain

    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)

1850190019502000Vladimir Gardin, b. 1877Laura Gardin Fraser, b. 1889Gianni Berengo Gardin, b. 1930Gianfranco Gardin, b. 1944Ron Gardin, b. 1944Mauro Gardin, b. 1961Lucia Gardin, b. 1968Blanche Gardin, b. 1977Chiara Gardin, b. 1981Kerri Gardin, b. 1984

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)

FormalDear Gardin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Gardin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,567
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010886#27,277
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000769#29,040
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020733#33,463
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—274#6,344
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008269#6,203
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961268—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951258—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971256—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991238—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941233—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981219—

Reference works 5

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 Gardin mean, and where does it come from?
French, northern Italian (Venice), and Spanish; metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from Old French gardin ‘garden’, or an Italian or Spanish cognate. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gardin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑɹdɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gardin have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Gardin, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Gardin?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,154 people named Gardin, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
How common is Gardin compared with other names?
In Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Gardin is the 93rd most common surname of 405 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gardin” — the 93rd most common surname in Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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