Gardy
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gardy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: southern variant of Gardin.
- PLPoland1 in 467K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 467K (inferred from the name graph)
252 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
southern variant of Gardin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gardy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 252 | 1 in 1.3M | 345 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 82 | 1 in 467K | 41 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
252 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gardy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, synonym of hardy
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)
- Gauderic Gardyb. 1850FRFrench sculptor active in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées)
- Paul Gardyb. 1901FRFrench general (1901–1975)
- Joan Gardy-Artigasb. 1938FRpotter (born 1938)
- Felip Gardyb. 1948FRFrench academic
- Danièle Gardyb. 1956ATThèse d'état Université Paris-Sud XI - Orsay 1989
- Jennifer GardyCACanadian biochemist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 345 | #62,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 285 | #65,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 252 | #76,275 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #56,743 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #57,180 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #69,036 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #54,819 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #76,661 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Gardy mean, and where does it come from?
- southern variant of Gardin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gardy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 252 people named Gardy, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gardy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gardy is densest in Poland — about 1 in 467 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gardy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 252 people named Gardy in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gardyThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gardy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.