The surname Agard
A Danish surname, carried by 1,247 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex A263
Origin
Danish origin
From North Germanic (Scandinavian), from Danish Aagaard, Norwegian Aagaard.
One of 50 Danish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,247 people named Agard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,162.
Who is named Agard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
55% of people named Agard identified as Black (not Hispanic), 30% as white (not Hispanic) and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Black (not Hispanic) 55%
- White (not Hispanic) 30%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 4.5%
- Two or more races 4.1%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Agard has the Soundex code A263, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A263.
Other Danish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Agard come from?
- From North Germanic (Scandinavian), from Danish Aagaard, Norwegian Aagaard.
- How common is the surname Agard?
- 1,247 people in the United States had the surname Agard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 247,591 Americans. It ranked 21,068th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Agard?
- In the 2010 Census, 55% of people named Agard identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 30% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Agard getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,162 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,247 in 2010, up 7.3%.