Nord
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 20
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɔʁt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nord is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 16K
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
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
- 304 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
368 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 20.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nord is read(measured from records)
Nord is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German29%
Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 20.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
the north (used without article; a short form of Norden)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French19%
north
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nord in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nord 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 | 368 | 1 in 16K | 368 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 4.6K | Nord | 304 |
| FR France | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 772K | 16 | Nord | 4 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 650K | — | Nord | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Nord | 85 |
| MA Morocco | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 619K | — | Nord | 11 |
| FI Finland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 463K | 465 | — | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | 1 |
368 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Nord is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic or ornamental name from Scandinavian nord, Dutch noord ‘north’. As a topographic name it would have denoted someone who lived in the northern part of a village or to the north of a main settlement or someone who had migrated from the north.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short form of a Germanic personal name with the first element nord ‘north’, for example Norbert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, dept. France
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Nordb. 1900FRFrench writer, spy and resistance member (1900–1985)
- Hans Nordb. 1919NLDutch lawyer and politician (1919–1996)
- Gloria Nordb. 1922USAmerican roller skater (1922–2009)
- Christiane Nordb. 1943DEGerman translation scholar
- Anne Kulleb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Ika Nordb. 1960SESwedish actress and mime
- Marit Söderströmb. 1962SEnot in their usual nameSwedish competitive sailor
- Kathleen Nordb. 1965DEEast German swimmer (1965–2022)
- Richard Nordb. 2000USAmerican film editor
- Haavard Nordb. 2000NONorwegian programmer
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 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,410 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 465 | #3,679 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 168 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 161 | #3,259 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Nord mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature; bearers 20. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Nord?
- A machine transcription gives /nɔʁt/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Nord have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 368 people named Nord, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nord most common?
- Nord is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nord?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 368 people named Nord, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nord?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nordThe 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, “Nord”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.