Nygard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: posed of the elements ny New + gdrd enclosure
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/nyɡɑrd/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Nygard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 411(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K
- SESweden1 in 10K
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 Nygard 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)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)
13,318 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nygaard in US United States, NO Norway, DK Denmark and 1 more and Nygård in FI Finland, 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
(measured from records)posed of the elements ny New + gdrd enclosure. Nygaard see Nygrad Nurmi Finnish: ornamental name from Finn, nurmi lawn, pasture; one of the many Finn, surnames formed in the 19th cent, from vocab. words denoting natural features. Vars.: Nygaard; Nyegard, Nyegaard. Nygren see New Var.: Nurminen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nygard 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 | #39 | 13,318 | 1 in 411 | 13K | Nygaard | 86 |
| DK Denmark | #48 | 4,452as Nygaard | 1 in 1.3K | 4.5K | Nygaard | 141 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,332 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.3K | Nygård | 16 |
| US United States | — | 2,752as Nygaard | 1 in 121K | 2.8K | Nygaard | 219 |
| SE Sweden | #885 | 981 | 1 in 10K | 981 | Nygård | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Nygaard | 42 |
13,318 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population), counting the spelling nygård. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nygard is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, posed of the elements «y New + gard enclosure. Vars.: Nygaard; Nyegard, Nyegaard.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname from the North Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Olav Nygardb. 1884NONorwegian writer
- Margaret Nygardb. 1925GBBritish environmentalist and conservationist
- Mons Nygardb. 1925NONorwegian jurist, law professor (1925-1991)
- Arne Olav Nygardb. 1967NONorwegian musician
- Mia Kristin Bogetveit Nygardb. 1993NONorwegian association football player
- Stian Nygardb. 1995NONorwegian association football player
- Rikke Bogetveit Nygardb. 2000NONorwegian association football player
- Saga Nygardb. 2000SESwedish association football player
- Carina NygardNONorwegian association football player
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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
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
- Where does the name Nygard come from?
- posed of the elements ny New + gdrd enclosure. Nygaard see Nygrad Nurmi Finnish: ornamental name from Finn, nurmi lawn, pasture; one of the many Finn, surnames formed in the 19th cent, from vocab. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Nygard?
- In Norwegian /nyɡɑrd/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Nygard have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Nygard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nygaard.
- Where is Nygard most common?
- Nygard is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 411 people carrying it.
- What does the name Nygard mean?
- Recorded meaning: posed of the elements ny New + gdrd enclosure.
- How common is the name Nygard?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,318 people named Nygard, about 1 in 411 residents.
- How common is Nygard compared with other names?
- In Norway, Nygard is the 39th most common surname of 90,139 surnames 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/nygardThe 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, “Nygard” — the 39th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.