Biard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: posed of the elements big, of uncertain meaning + hard brave, hardy, strong
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bjaʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Biard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 66K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
- NLNetherlands1 in 411K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Biard itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
237 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
posed of the elements big, of uncertain meaning + hard brave, hardy, strong. Vars.: Bihard, Bicard, Bigard. Cogn.: Ger.: Bickhardt. Dims.: Fr.: Biardeau, Biardot.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Biard 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 | 237 | 1 in 1.4M | 271 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 235as Biar | 1 in 901K | 235 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 178 | 1 in 66K | 178 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 42 | 1 in 411K | 42 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | — |
237 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Biard is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Altération de Biort; origine incertaine.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Colin Biartb. 1460FRnot in their usual nameFrench architect
- Pierre Biard l'Aînéb. 1559FRFrench sculptor
- Pierre II Biardb. 1592FRFrench sculptor and architect (1592–1661)
- François-Auguste Biardb. 1799FRFrench painter (1799-1882)
- Georges Biard d’Aunetb. 1844FRFrench diplomat (1844-1934)
- Henri Biardb. 1915FRFrench official (1915–1988)
- André Biardb. 1918FRFrench soldier (1918–2001)
- James R. Biardb. 1931USAmerican electrical engineer
- Michel Biardb. 1957FRFrench historian
- Gérard Biardb. 1959FReditor‑in‑chief of Charlie Hebdo
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 271 | #76,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 254 | #71,610 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 237 | #80,131 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 178 | #9,441 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 42 | #34,251 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Biard come from?
- posed of the elements big, of uncertain meaning + hard brave, hardy, strong. Vars.: Bihard, Bicard, Bigard. Cogn.: Ger.: Bickhardt. Dims.: Fr.: Biardeau, Biardot. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Biard?
- A machine transcription gives /bjaʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Biard mean?
- Recorded meaning: posed of the elements big, of uncertain meaning + hard brave, hardy, strong.
- In which country does Biard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 237 people named Biard, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Biard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Biard is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Biard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Biard in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million 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/biardThe 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, “Biard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.