Nergaard
surname · Latin script
Nergaard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 326K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 2.2M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nergaard itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 326K (inferred from the name graph)
1,950 named Nergård
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:
Locally spelled Nergård in SE Sweden.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nergaard 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 | #447 | 1,950as Nergård | 1 in 2.8K | 1.9K | Nergaard | 56 |
| US United States | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Nergaard | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 96as Nergård | 1 in 106K | 96 | Nergård | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 58 | Nergaard | 19 |
| DK Denmark | — | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | Nergaard | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Nergaard | 5 |
1,950 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling nergård. 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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)
- Sigurd Nergaardb. 1873NONorwegian folklorist, writer, school principal, and teacher
- Liv Nergaardb. 1924NONorwegian artist (1924‐2016)
- Leiv Nergaardb. 1944NONorwegian businessman
- Silje Nergaardb. 1966NONorwegian singer
- Rune Nergaardb. 1983NONorwegian jazz musician
- Candis Nergaardb. 1983GBBritish film actress
- Magnus Nergaardb. 1989NONorwegian musician
- Peter Sørensen Nergaardb. 1990NONorwegian footballer
- Siri NergaardNONorwegian translation scholar
- Kai NergaardNONorwegian guitarist
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Nergaard have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Nergård, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nergaard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nergaard is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 326 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nergaard?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 18 people named Nergaard, about 1 in 326 thousand residents.
- How common is Nergaard compared with other names?
- In Norway, Nergaard is the 447th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nergaardThe 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, “Nergaard” — the 447th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.