Hagard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for a wild or unruly person, from Old French hagard ‘wild’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hagard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 228K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 300K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)
34 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for a wild or unruly person, from Old French hagard ‘wild’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hagard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | Hagard | 7 |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Hagard | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Hagard | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Hagard | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | Hagard | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | — | Hagard | 3 |
34 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling hågård. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Hagard 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 Cebuano, a motorcycle cop
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 Hagard mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for a wild or unruly person, from Old French hagard ‘wild’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hagard have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 34 people named Hagard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hagard.
- Where is Hagard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hagard is densest in Norway — about 1 in 228 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hagard?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 34 people named Hagard, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hagard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hagardThe 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, “Hagard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.