Agard
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Frequency: (337)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Danish and Norwegian: habitational name from Ågård ‘farm by the stream’.
2. French: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements agi(n) ‘edge (of a sword)’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘bold’.
3. Respelling of Hungarian Agárdi, a habitational name for someone from any of various places called Agárd, from the vocabulary word agár ‘hound’.
4. English: possibly a variant of Agar.
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