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Around the globe, ארד (Ard , Arad , ארד ) is quite a rare predominantly masculine, but very infrequently female given name. The forename ארד is characteristic of Israel, where it is quite a rare principally boy's, but scarcely feminine name, Albania, where it is quite a rare boy's name, and Netherlands, where it is a rare boy's name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, Israel, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More frequently, ארד is the last name as well as the forename.
ארד is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ard , character in Book of Numbers and Ard , the biblical character, Book of Numbers.