Alard
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/alaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 84K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 71K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 300K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 90 | Alard | 171 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Alard | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 166 | 1 in 71K | 166 | Alard | 26 |
| US United States | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Alard | 22 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Alard | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 15 | 1 in 3M | 15 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lambert Alardb. 1602DEtheologian, writer (1602-1672)
- Nikolaus Alardb. 1644DEGerman theologian, preacher and provost
- Pierre Alardb. 1745FRFrench politician (1745-1826)
- Marie Joseph Louis Jean François Antoine Alardb. 1779FRFrench physician (1779-1850)
- Jean-Delphin Alardb. 1815FRFrench musician (1815–1888)
- Pierre Alardb. 1937FRFrench athlete (1937–2019)
- Nelly Alardb. 1960FRFrench actor and writer
- Éric Alardb. 1967FRFrench bobsledder
- Benjamin Alardb. 1985FRFrench organist and harpsichordist
- Didier AlardFRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-2703-908X
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 166 | #10,066 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 115 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 115 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 111 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 98 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 76 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Alard?
- A machine transcription gives /alaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Alard?
- In the etymology graph, Allard is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 810 people named Alard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alard.
- Where is Alard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alard is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 71 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alard?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 166 people named Alard in 2008, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alardThe 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, “Alard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.