Gard Family History
Gard Name Meaning
English (southern): occupational name from Middle English gard(e) guard(e) ‘care custody protection’ (Old French garde ‘guard watchman’) for a member of a town watch or troop of guards. Norwegian (also Gård): habitational name from any of the two farmsteads so named in Rogaland from Old Norse garthr ‘farm’. Swedish (Gård): topographic or ornamental name from gård ‘farm’. French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or status name for someone who owned garden from Old French gard ‘garden’. Compare Dugard Gardin and Legard . German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name such as Gardulf based on the Old Saxon element gard ‘enclosure farm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022