Ard

At the 2020 census, 6,560 Americans bore the surname Ard — 5,153rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 45,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,560
Rank: 5,153rd
How common: 1 in 45,600
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

A Scottish habitational name from any of several places called Aird, whose names in turn derive from Scottish Gaelic àird (“promontory, height”) or àirde (“height”), from àrd (“high”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.4%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ard

Jim Ard (born 1948)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Ard

Ardoin
Ardon

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.