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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of Scandinavian Nygard, Nygaard, or Nygård (see Nygaard) or of German Neugart, a habitational name from places in Mecklenburg and Brandenburg named Neugarten or from Naugard in Pomerania.

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