Given name & surname
Girard
“one who is mighty with a spear”
Girard is a variant of Gerard. One English interpretation is “one who is mighty with a spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Girard is a variant of Gerard. One English interpretation is “one who is mighty with a spear.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Girard is a variant of Gerard. An origin associated with Gerard is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Girard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,717
- 1,717 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 37 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 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 962 as a first name in 2020; 12,133 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.
Girard’s family of names
Girard has a related form in Gerard. Girard has a related form in GERART. In Greek usage, Girard is a transliteration of Ζιράρ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Gerardoequivalent
- Geraldequivalent
- Gerritequivalent
- Geroldequivalent
- Gerhardequivalent
- Géraldequivalent
- Geertequivalent
- Giraldoequivalent
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People named Girard
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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