Given name & surname
Gaillard
“a brave and spirited man”
Gaillard is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a brave and spirited man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a brave and spirited man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gaillard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1913
- 6 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 6 in 1913. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,257 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gaillard’s family of names
Gaillard has a related form in Gaillardet. Gaillard has a related form in Gaillart. Gaillard has a related form in Gaillhard.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gaillard
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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