Gilardi

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gilardi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic or plural form of Gilardo, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 14K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 20K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,100 people, est.

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic or plural form of Gilardo, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. See also Gerard.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gilardi 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.

Where Gilardi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈3,100 est.≈1 in 20KlistedGilardi29
AR Argentina1,4331 in 32K1.4KGilardi55
FR France≈550 est.≈1 in 124K52—1
US United States5311 in 626K717Gilardi45
UY Uruguay2471 in 14K247Gilardi13
CH Switzerland2471 in 34K247Gilardi10

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gilardi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gilárdi

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ğilardi

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gilardi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, variante regional de Girardi

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Gherardi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Giovanni Battista Gilardi, b. 1755Domenico Gilardi, b. 1785Alessandro Gilardi, b. 1808Gilardo Gilardi, b. 1889Luigi Gilardi, b. 1897Gianpietro Gilardi, b. 1938Piero Gilardi, b. 1942Enrico Gilardi, b. 1957Thierry Gilardi, b. 1958Max Gilardi, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Gilardi come from?
patronymic or plural form of Gilardo, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. See also Gerard. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Gilardi mean?
Recorded meaning: patronymic or plural form of Gilardo, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
In which country does Gilardi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Gilardi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilardi.
Where is Gilardi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gilardi is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gilardi?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,433 people named Gilardi, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.

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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, “Gilardi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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