Lugard
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫuɡɑɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lugard is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Nigeria. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. variant of Lugger with excrescent -d.
- NGNigeria
- GYGuyana
- KEKenya
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. variant of Lugger with excrescent -d. Luger English: relationship name from an unrecorded Middle English given name *Lugge (Old English *Lugga), the evidence, and parallels, for which are given under Lugworthy in Place-Names of Devon, p. 180.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Henry Ibbetson Lugardb. 1837(1837-1925)
- Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugardb. 1858GBBritish colonial administrator (1858-1945)
- Charlotte Eleanor Lugardb. 1859GBBritish artist, botanist and botanical collector (1859-1939)
- Edward James Lugardb. 1865GBBritish military officer and botanical collector (1865-1957)
- Katherine Isabel Beatrice Lugardb. 1895GBBritish botanical collector (1895-1981)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 53 | #29,865 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #122,723 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lugard mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. variant of Lugger with excrescent -d. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Lugard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫuɡɑɹd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lugard a male or female name?
- Lugard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lugard have the most bearers?
- Lugard is most frequently recorded in Nigeria.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lugardThe 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, “Lugard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.