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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Danish : Garden keeper

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’.
  • English : variant spelling of Guard.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse garðr ‘farm’.
  • Swedish (Gård) : topographic or ornamental name from gård ‘farm’.

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