Gard

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Male Male Name

Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Garðr [1] [2]

2) Low German short form of Gerhard [3]

Related Names

Gar
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian
Gard
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish

See also Gardian

For female forms see Gardia, Gardine

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gardsen Norway
Gardson Norway
Gardssen
Gardsøn Norway

Female

Gardsdatter Norway

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Gard
Genitive: Gards
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Gard
Genitive: Gards
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Gard
Genitive: Gards

Name Day

Norway Norway

30 May

Further Information

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 10 people were named Gard (percentage of first or only given name: 70 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
13 22 0 0 13 22
Denmark Denmark[6]
7
n.a.
0
n.a.
7
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
4 0 0
n.a.
4
Norway Norway[8]
1377
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
1377
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[9]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Gard (m) Sources: [5][6][8][7]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Gard (m)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Das große Vornamenlexikon (2007)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  9. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/