Given name & surname
Gérard
“spear”·“hard”
Gérard is a masculine given name. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gérard is built from elements meaning “spear” and “hard”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
In French use, Gérard shares an earlier linguistic root with Gerard. An origin associated with Gerard is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
Gérard’s family of names
In French usage, Gérard has a diminutive in Gégé. Gérard shares a linguistic root with Gerard. In French usage, Gérard has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Gerardo.
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Around the world
Gérard has relatives in 16 languages.
18 related names in 16 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 26
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- GerardoSpanish, Italian
- Geraldequivalent
- Gerardcognate · Dutch, English
- GerritDutch
- Gerhardcognate · German, Swedish
- Gerhardtcognate · German
- Geroldequivalent
- Girardequivalent
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People named Gérard
- Gérard DepardieuFrench actor (born 1948)
- Gérard de NervalFrench writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
- Gérard PhilipeFrench actor (1922-1959)
- Gérard MourouFrench physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018born 1944
- Gérard DebreuFrench economist and mathematician (1921–2004)
- Girard DesarguesFrench mathematician and engineer1591–1661
- Gérard HoullierFrench football manager (1947–2020)
- Gérard OuryFrench director and actor (1919–2006)
- Gérard GenetteFrench literary theorist (1930–2018)
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