Haggard Surname
Approximately 12,366 people bear this surname
Haggard Surname Definition:
A claim was pursued against Isobel Hagger in Stitchill, 1723 (Stitchill, p. 185). The name occurs in Suffolk in thirteenth century as Hacgard (Guppy, p. 85). compare English surname Haggard.
Haggard Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11,172 | 1:32,444 | 4,048 |
| South Africa | 455 | 1:119,072 | 14,155 |
| Ghana | 277 | 1:97,548 | 9,187 |
| England | 162 | 1:343,939 | 25,007 |
| Canada | 134 | 1:274,967 | 25,811 |
| Australia | 37 | 1:729,614 | 48,196 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 37 | 1:36,864 | 3,590 |
| Wales | 22 | 1:140,661 | 10,115 |
| Guam | 16 | 1:10,008 | 1,526 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| Mexico | 4 | 1:31,031,551 | 63,627 |
| Poland | 4 | 1:9,502,187 | 181,606 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| India | 3 | 1:255,688,461 | 1,306,352 |
| Thailand | 2 | 1:35,319,172 | 966,191 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Liberia | 2 | 1:2,204,268 | 40,131 |
| Hong Kong | 2 | 1:3,667,742 | 11,574 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 1:9,162,273 | 135,437 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Malta | 1 | 1:430,272 | 3,380 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 7 | 1:632,838 | 19,259 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 253 | 1:96,345 | 9,841 |
| Scotland | 8 | 1:467,902 | 12,875 |
| Wales | 4 | 1:392,104 | 12,338 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,986 | 1:25,286 | 3,123 |
Haggard (117) may also be a first name.
Haggard Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A claim was pursued against Isobel Hagger in Stitchill, 1723 (Stitchill, p. 185). The name occurs in Suffolk in thirteenth century as Hacgard (Guppy, p. 85). compare English surname Haggard.
(Anglo-French-Teut.) Lean; Wild [French hagard; perh. Middle High German hag, a hedge + the French intens. suff. -ard, Teutonic hart, hard, hard] (N.Eng. and Scandinavian) Dweller at a Hay- Yard [Old English hég = O.N, hey, hay + Old Northern English g(e)ard = Old Norse garð-r, yard, enclosure]
1. According to B.L.G. the family are supposed to be derived from the Ogards of co. Herts. 2. Haggard is a corruption of "hay-garth," a rick yard, and is so employed in Hall and Holinshed, as well as in several provincial dialects. See Garth. 3, and most probably, an ancient baptismal name which occurs in Domesday as Acard and Acardus, and in the H.R. as Hacgard.
Same as Hoggart, Huggard; from hoog-hart, a D. G. compound signifying very high or big.
From the Old Norse, Hagbarðr; from the Danish, Aaggaard; from the Swedish, Hagert; from the Dutch, Hageraats, Hakkert, Hagers, Hagoort, Hagt; from the German, Hoeger; from the Flemish, Hager; in the Domesday Book, Hago, Aghete (Lincolnshire), Hagebert; a personal name.
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Haggard Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Haggard Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Haggard occurs most in The United States. It can also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for other potential spellings of Haggard.
How Common Is The Last Name Haggard? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 42,207th most frequent last name at a global level, held by approximately 1 in 589,321 people. Haggard occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 87 percent of Haggard reside; 87 percent reside in North America and 87 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 864,112th most frequent first name in the world, held by 117 people.
The last name is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 11,172 people, or 1 in 32,444. In The United States Haggard is most common in: Texas, where 14 percent are found, California, where 9 percent are found and Tennessee, where 9 percent are found. Apart from The United States this surname exists in 41 countries. It is also common in South Africa, where 4 percent are found and Ghana, where 2 percent are found.
Haggard Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Haggard has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Haggard last name grew 563 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it fell 36 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it grew 550 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it fell 87 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Haggard Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Haggard last name is predominantly Anglican (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Haggard last name are 21.47% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 68.24% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Haggard earn in different countries varies markedly. In South Africa they earn 35.06% more than the national average, earning R 320,952 per year; in United States they earn 4.21% less than the national average, earning $41,332 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.51% less than the national average, earning $48,934 CAD per year.
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