Gardiner

Gardiner is the 3,109th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,288 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,500.

By the numbers

People: 11,288
Rank: 3,109th
How common: 1 in 26,500
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

A spelling variant of Gardener.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gardiner

Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820–1889)First Lady of the United States
Steven Gardiner (born 1995)Bahamian sprinter
Alan Gardiner (1879–1963)English egyptologist and philologist
John Eliot Gardiner (born 1943)English conductor
Margaret Gardiner (born 1959)South African beauty pageant contestant and journalist
Anthony W. Gardiner (1820–1885)President of Liberia
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849)Irish writer, editor
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902)British historian

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

Surnames like Gardiner

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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.