Geard
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Geard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Gard .
- AUAustralia≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 167K
- NONorway1 in 391K
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Gard .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Geard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 1 | Geard | 74 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Geard | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Geard | 59 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Geard | 20 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | Geard | 52 |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | Geard | 6 |
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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Geard 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 ang, enclosure (an enclosed place)
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)
- Rex Geardb. 1927Australian rules footballer
- Leonard Geardb. 1934GBFootballer (born 1934)
- Nicholas GeardAUresearcher
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 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,646 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Geard mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Gard . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Geard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 231 people named Geard in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled geard.
- How common is the name Geard?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14 people named Geard, about 1 in 391 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/geardThe 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, “Geard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.