Gardiner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as an occupation
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gardiner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 5.3K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 432 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as an occupation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gardiner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Gardiner | 10 |
| US United States | — | 11,331 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Gardiner | 432 |
| GB United Kingdom | #498 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Gardiner | 259 |
| AU Australia | #360 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 1 | Gardiner | 194 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Gardiner | 188 |
| NZ New Zealand | #387 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Gardiner | 121 |
| IE Ireland | #754 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Gardiner | 68 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Gardiner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite feminine plural of gardin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of gardin
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)
- Stephen Gardinerb. 1483GBEnglish bishop (1483-1555)
- Julia Tylerb. 1820USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States (1820–1889)
- Samuel Rawson Gardinerb. 1829GBBritish historian (1829–1902)
- Alan Gardinerb. 1879GBEnglish egyptologist and philologist (1879–1963)
- Reginald Gardinerb. 1903GBactor (1903-1980)
- Princess Muna Al-Husseinb. 1941GBnot in their usual nameJordanian Royal
- John Eliot Gardinerb. 1943GBEnglish conductor
- Margaret Gardinerb. 1959ZASouth African beauty pageant contestant and journalist
- Lizzy Gardinerb. 1966AUHollywood costume designer (born 1966)
- Steven Gardinerb. 1995BSBahamian sprinter
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 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,109 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,050 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Gardiner mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as an occupation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gardiner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Gardiner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gardiner.
- How common is the name Gardiner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,331 people named Gardiner in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Gardiner compared with other names?
- In Australia, Gardiner is the 360th most common surname of 552,428 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/gardinerThe 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, “Gardiner” — the 360th most common surname in Australia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.