The name first appears in the genealogy book by Søren Pedersen Storgaard, he was born in 1808 in Røgen near Skanderborg, Denmark. The name Storgaard (Eng: Large farm) itself was very commonly used in small towns, which is why an unknown high number of farms was called and named Storgaard. There is no recorded knowledge in the genus of the exact location of the “Storgaard” of the genus, but it was assumed by it to lie in the smoke.