Gilardi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic or plural form of Gilardo, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/çilaɾdi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gilardi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
- ARArgentina1 in 32K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gilardi is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Gilardi | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 1,433 | 1 in 32K | 1.4K | Gilardi | 55 |
| FR France | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 112K | 52 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 531 | 1 in 626K | 717 | Gilardi | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | 247 | 1 in 14K | 247 | Gilardi | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 247 | 1 in 34K | 247 | Gilardi | 10 |
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); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; 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 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)- Domenico Gilardib. 1785CHSwiss architect (1785-1845)
- Gilardo Gilardib. 1889ARArgentine composer (1889–1963)
- Piero Gilardib. 1942ITItalian artist (1942–2023)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
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.
- How do you pronounce Gilardi?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /çilaɾdi/; in Italian /d͡ʒlardi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gilardi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Gilardi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gilardi. After it come Argentina, France, United States and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gilardiThe 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, “Gilardi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.