Given name & surname

Bård

Bård is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Nynorsk.

Original Old NorseBárðr

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Bård comes from Old Norse.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Old Norse Bárðr.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Bård’s family of names

In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Bård continues an earlier form in Bárðr.

Walk Bård’s family in the name graph

BårdBardBaardBárðrBárður

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 3

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Bård, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Old Norse

Barði

“beard”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Germanic

Audvard

“riches, wealth” · “guard, ward”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Bagby

“farmstead”

No U.S. birth series

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Old English

Bigland

“barley”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Börge

“to save”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Haavard

“high”

No U.S. birth series

95% boys · 5% girls

Germanic

Håvard

“high”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Old Norse

Battersby

“settlement”

No U.S. birth series

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Bård’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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