The Garden surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,917 people carried this name — #15,309 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 153,800 people counted. That is down 2% from 1,947 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 64 people named Garden.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Isère.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
270 people named Garden are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Garden in American newspapers,
1893–1910.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,863,216 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Garden,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henrietta Garden d. 1807
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Bathia Garden d. 1781
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Anne Garden d. 1770
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George Garden d. 1913
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Alexander Garden 1585–1642 · poet
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Alexander Garden 1585–1634 · poet
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Garden.
- Garcin 137 · U.S. census
- Garcon 653 · U.S. census
- Gard 4,729 · U.S. census
- Garda 249 · U.S. census
- Garde 754 · U.S. census
- Gardella 2,150 · U.S. census
- Gardere 208 · U.S. census
- Gardin 886 · U.S. census
- Gardini 228 · U.S. census
- Gardinier 587 · U.S. census
- Gardon 315 · U.S. census
- Gardy 252 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Garden is.
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