The Nord surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,635 people carried this name — #7,204 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 63,700 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (4,623).
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 103 people named Nord.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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
5,986 people named Nord are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Nord in American newspapers,
1867–1896.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 413,526 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Nord,
with a public archive behind them.
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Knud Olsson Nord Hidle 1538–1620
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Jorunn Berdinesdatter Nord Kolnes 1586–
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Erik Tjerandsen Nord Halleland 1657–1728
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Astrid Ingebretsdatter Vestly 1691–1760
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Lars Monsson Nedre Øksnevad 1720–1755
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Berit Jonsdatter Sele 1722–1816
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Nord.
- Noll 10,374 · U.S. census
- Nolle 292 · U.S. census
- Nollet 152 · U.S. census
- Nonnenmacher 327 · U.S. census
- Noppe 127 · U.S. census
- Norbert 246 · U.S. census
- Nordin 2,642 · U.S. census
- Nordmann 494 · U.S. census
- Nore 367 · U.S. census
- Noris 466 · U.S. census
- Norman 67,704 · U.S. census
- Normand 3,246 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Nord is.
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