Given name & surname
Linard
Linard is a masculine given name from German. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
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
Linard through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 235
- 235 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 13 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 1984. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 154 as a first name in 2020; 255 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.
Linard’s family of names
In French usage, Linard has a related form in Liénard.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 Linard
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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