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Girard

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Girard has been given to 1,717 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1926, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Girard, 2003

1 in 634,000

Girard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girard: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Girard means

Girard is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Girard is used in French.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,717 boys were recorded with the name Girard between 1900 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 37 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,125 in 1942.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Girard?

Girard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 634,000
6 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 329,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
439,159 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Girard 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 2003 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 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Girard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Girards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Girard was born before 1949 — so the typical Girard is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
857
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Girard 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
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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 1926 (37)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,125
1942

Spellings of Girard

Girard is not the most common spelling — Gerald is, with 78.9% against Girard's 0.30%.

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.

Where Girard is used

Across 1910–2025, Girard was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 121,215 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maine1 in 100,000
  5. 5Rhode Island1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Girard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Girard around the world

Where Girard ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1914–1978
    #2,362
    in 1978
  • South Australia
    1971–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Girard 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
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Best rank ever
#1,125
1942
Peak year
1926
37 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
1,717
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Girard

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

EduardEdgardBallardKennardRashardBenardDewardShepardRenardGerrardJerardLenardHarvardHaywardBayardKenardConardDenardHeywardVernardHillardReshardStewardGerhard

Sibling names for Girard

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

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