Havard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Du nom germanique Hahward, de hah, origine indéterminée, et ward « gardien »
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Havard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 45K
- SESweden1 in 182K
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.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Håvard in NO Norway, DK Denmark and Haavard in SE Sweden, GH Ghana.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Du nom germanique Hahward, de hah, origine indéterminée, et ward « gardien ».
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Havard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #399 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 35K | Håvard | 69 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Haavard | 3 |
| US United States | — | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 3.5K | Havard | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 56 | 1 in 182K | 56 | Haavard | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 431 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | Håvard | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | 3 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph-Marie-Pélagie Havardb. 1790FR19th-century Catholic bishop
- Valery Havardb. 1846FRFrench-born American military physician, botanist and explorer (1846-1927)
- Robert Havardb. 1901GBBritish doctor
- Joachim Havard de la Montagneb. 1927FRFrench organist and composer (1927–2003)
- James Havardb. 1937USAmerican artist (1937–2020)
- Dai Havardb. 1950GBBritish politician (born 1950)
- Alexandre Havardb. 1962FRFrench writer and lawyer
- Michel Havardb. 1967FRFrench politician
- Kenny Havardb. 1971USAmerican politician in Louisiana (born 1971)
- Noah Havardb. 2000AUAustralian canoeist
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 21 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,076 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,478 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 579 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 542 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 485 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 454 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 438 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 431 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 399 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 384 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 268 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Havard mean, and where does it come from?
- Du nom germanique Hahward, de hah, origine indéterminée, et ward « gardien ». Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Havard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Havard in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled håvard.
- How common is the name Havard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Havard in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Havard compared with other names?
- In Norway, Havard is the 399th most common given name of 25,788 given names 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/havardThe 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, “Havard” — the 399th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.