Giraud
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Géraud/Gérard, Germanic 'spear' + 'strong'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Giraud is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 362K
- DMDominica1 in 6.7K
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
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Géraud/Gérard, Germanic 'spear' + 'strong'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giraud 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 | #76 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 3.6K | Giraud | 332 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Giraud | 6 |
| US United States | — | 919 | 1 in 362K | 1K | Giraud | 201 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Giraud | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 394 | 1 in 115K | 394 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 162 | 1 in 52K | 162 | Giraud | 33 |
| BE Belgium | — | 103 | 1 in 114K | 103 | Giraud | 38 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 5 | — | 12 |
| DM Dominica | — | 11 | 1 in 6.7K | 11 | — | — |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). 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)
Giraud is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, French surname; in the Renaissance it could be Latinized as Giraudy.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
French; from a vernacular form of Gerald (see Gerald). One immigrant of this name was established in Montreal by 1681; others, from Brittany, were in Beauport, Quebec, by 1700.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, a surname, Giraud, equivalent to English Gerald
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, soit toponymique, soit du nom germanique Gariwald (gāri ‘lance’ + wald ‘pouvoir, autorité’).
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Variante de Gérald/Géraud; germanique ger « lance » + wald « gouverner ». Fête de saint Gérald.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Eugène Giraudb. 1806FRFrench painter (1806-1881)
- Albert Giraudb. 1860BEBelgian poet (1860-1929)
- Henri Giraudb. 1879FRFrench general and politician (1879-1949)
- Hubert Giraudb. 1920FRFrench composer, lyricist (1920–2016)
- Claude Giraudb. 1936FRFrench actor (1936–2020)
- Jean Giraudb. 1938FRFrench comics author (1938–2012)
- Brigitte Giraudb. 1960FRFrench writer
- Hélène Giraudb. 1970FRFrench film director and screenwriter
- Joyce Giraudb. 1975USPuerto Rican actor, model, and beauty pageant winner
- Nicolas Giraudb. 1978FRFrench actor
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 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,376 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Giraud mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Géraud/Gérard, Germanic 'spear' + 'strong'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- In which country does Giraud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Giraud in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giraud.
- How common is the name Giraud?
- In the United States, the national register counted 919 people named Giraud in 2010, about 1 in 362 thousand residents.
- How common is Giraud compared with other names?
- In France, Giraud is the 76th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giraudThe 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, “Giraud” — the 76th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.