Given name
Algerd
“holy temple”
Algerd is a masculine given name from Gothic (ultimately Proto-Germanic), meaning “holy temple.” It is used in German.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Algerd comes from Gothic, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (“holy temple”), from Old High German alah, from Proto-Germanic *alhs.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Algerd through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 20 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1918.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Algerd’s family of names
In German usage, Algerd shares a linguistic root with Algimund.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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