Neergaard
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəɐɡ̊aɑˀd̥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neergaard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 9.6K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 14K
- SESweden1 in 255K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
612 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neergaard 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #291 | 612 | 1 in 9.6K | 612 | Neergaard | 78 |
| NO Norway | — | 388 | 1 in 14K | 388 | Neergaard | 27 |
| US United States | — | 139 | 1 in 2.4M | 161 | Neergaard | 73 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 552K | — | Neergaard | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 40 | 1 in 255K | 40 | Neergaard | 20 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
612 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hermania Neergaardb. 1799DKDanish painter (1799-1875)
- Niels Neergaardb. 1854DKDanish politician (1854-1936)
- Hans Neergaardb. 1865DKDanish actor (1865-1926)
- Bodil de Neergaardb. 1867DKDanish estate owner, philanthropist, autobiographer (1867-1959)
- Paul Neergaardb. 1907DKDanish biologist (1907–1987)
- Claus Marius Neergaardb. 1911NONorwegian politician
- Charlotte Neergaardb. 1944Danish actor (1944-1999)
- Helle Neergaardb. 1960DKresearcher in entrepreneurship education
- Kjell Neergaardb. 1966NONorwegian politician
- Mette de Neergaardb. 1991DKDanish female curler
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 612 | #696 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 388 | #3,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 161 | #103,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 147 | #123,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 139 | #123,796 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40 | #14,969 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Neergaard?
- A machine transcription gives /nəɐɡ̊aɑˀd̥/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Neergaard have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 612 people named Neergaard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neergaard.
- Where is Neergaard most common?
- Neergaard is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Neergaard?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 612 people named Neergaard, about 1 in 9.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Neergaard compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Neergaard is the 291st most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Neergaard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neergaardThe 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, “Neergaard” — the 291st most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.