Gillard

Boys' name

Kid, young goat, through Giles

Gillard has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1922. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Gillard, 1922

1 in 458,000

Gillard over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gillard: meaning, origin, and history

Kid, young goat, through Giles

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gillard means

Gillard belongs to the name family reached through Gillard → Giles. Its meaning is “kid, young goat”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Middle English diminutive of the male given name Giles.

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Origin, language, and formation

Gillard is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Giles.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gillard is pronounced /ˈɡɪləd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Gillard between 1922 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,556 in 1922.

How common is Gillard?

Gillard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1922: 1 in 458,000; 5 of 2,289,103 births
Among boys only: 1 in 218,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1922: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 317,338 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gillard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gillard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gillards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gillard was born before 1922 — so the typical Gillard is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Gillard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1922 (5)
Years since peak: 103; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,556; 1922

Spellings of Gillard

Gillard is not the most common spelling — Willard is, with 70.3% against Gillard's <0.01%.

Willard70.3%77,658
Millard15.2%16,743
Dillard3.4%3,730
Hillard2.1%2,356
Hilliard1.7%1,859
Girard1.6%1,717
Hillary1.1%1,262
Gilford1.1%1,225

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gillard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,556; 1922
Peak year: 1922; 5 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 1922
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gillard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gilligan Gilfred Gillen Gilber Mallard Reppard Sigvard Reinard Hilyard Minyard Garrard Hibbard Leeward Gaynard Lanyard Kinnard Linnard Rochard Packard Brenard Yosgard Wishard Deshard Tashard

Sibling names for Gillard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Albertha Bethel Verla Lorine Elvera Rubie Tressie Filomena

For a brother

Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton Elden Cletus Elroy Columbus

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