Gardner

Gardner is the 202nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 137,379 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,176.

By the numbers

People: 137,379
Rank: 202nd
How common: 1 in 2,176
Per 100,000: 46.0

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gardner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.1%
Black, not Hispanic 19.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Gardner

Ava Gardner (1922–1990)American actress
Sue Gardner (born 1967)Canadian journalist
Howard Gardner (born 1943)American developmental psychologist & academic
Martin Gardner (1914–2010)American mathematics and science writer
Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970)American writer and lawyer
Gerald Gardner (1884–1964)British Wiccan leader
Virginia Gardner (born 1995)American actress
Cory Gardner (born 1974)United States Senator from Colorado

People named Gardner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gardner

Also a first name

Gardner has been given to 3,026 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1915. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.