Gërard
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gërard is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Dutch *Gērhard, from Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.
- PLPoland1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 13K
- SESweden1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gërard itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
41,777 people, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gerard in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Dutch*Gērhard(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*Gaiʀahard(measured from records)
From Old Dutch *Gērhard, from Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gërard counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 41,777 | 1 in 8K | 42K | Gerard | 24 |
| ES Spain | 22,069 | 1 in 2.3K | 22K | Gerard | 10 |
| PL Poland | 9,185 | 1 in 4.2K | 9.5K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 1,458 | 1 in 12K | 1.4K | Gerard | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 628 | 1 in 16K | 628 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 57 | 1 in 13K | 57 | — | — |
41,777 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gërard mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Dutch *Gērhard, from Proto-West Germanic *Gaiʀahard. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Gërard a male or female name?
- Gërard is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gërard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Gërard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerard.
- Where is Gërard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gërard is densest in Spain — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gërard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,777 people named Gërard in 2020, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%ABrardThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gërard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.