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
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡaɾdin/(machine-generated) Portuguese · 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.
- FRFrance≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 44K
- BRBrazil1 in 98K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
2,154 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gardin is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,154 | 1 in 98K | 2.2K | — | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 238 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Gardin | 20 |
| US United States | — | 886 | 1 in 375K | 886 | Gardin | 182 |
| BE Belgium | — | 269 | 1 in 44K | 274 | Gardin | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 1 |
| FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | #93 | — | — | — | Gardin | 1 |
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 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)- Vladimir Gardinb. 1877RURussian and Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1877–1965)
- Gianni Berengo Gardinb. 1930ITItalian photographer (1930–2025)
- Blanche Gardinb. 1977FRFrench stand-up comedian, actress and writer
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
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?
- In Portuguese /ɡaɾdin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gardin?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Gardin, more than in any other country we hold. After it come France, Italy, United States and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gardinThe 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, “Gardin” — the 93rd most common surname in Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.