as a Last Name
- 1,376
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Yard
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure of some kind, Middle English yard(e) (Old English geard; compare Garth). 2. nickname from Middle English yard ‘rod’, ‘stick’ (Old English (Anglian) gerd), probably with reference to a rod or staff carried as a symbol of authority. 3. from the same word as in 2, used to denote a measure of land. The surname probably denoted someone who held this quantity of land, and as it was quite a large amount (varying at different periods and in different places, but generally approximately 30 acres, a quarter of a hide), such a person would have been a reasonably prosperous farmer.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,376
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Yard per capita
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