Girault
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Girault is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 6.7Kas Giraud(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11Kas Girod
- BEBelgium1 in 114Kas Giraud
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Girault 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
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,689 named Girod, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica, as Giraud
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Giraud in US United States and Girod in CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Girault 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 | 1,689as Girod | 1 in 197K | 2.5K | Giraud | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 748as Girod | 1 in 11K | 748 | Girod | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 394as Giraud | 1 in 115K | 394 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 199as Giraud | 1 in 1.1M | 199 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 103as Giraud | 1 in 114K | 103 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 40as Giraud | 1 in 139K | 40 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | 11as Giraud | 1 in 6.7K | 11 | — | — |
1,689 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling girod. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
- Charles-Pierre Girault-Duvivierb. 1765FRFrench linguist
- Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangeyb. 1804FRFrench photographer (1804-1892)
- Charles-Louis Giraultb. 1851FRFrench architect (1851–1932)
- Alexandre Arsène Giraultb. 1884USAmerican entomologist (1884-1941)
- Jean Giraultb. 1924FRFrench film director (1924–1982)
- Jean-Marie Giraultb. 1926FRFrench politician (1926-2016)
- René Giraultb. 1929FRFrench historian (1929-1999)
- Hubert Giraultb. 1957CHSwiss scientist, specialist in physical and analytical electrochemistry
- Nadine Giraultb. 1959CACanadian politician
- Olivier Giraultb. 1973FRFrench handball player
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 260 | #79,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 206 | #89,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 186 | #91,801 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 56 | #17,076 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #56,604 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- In which country does Girault have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Girod, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Girault most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Girault itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Dominica's: the national register counts about 1 in 6.7 thousand people named Giraud.
- How common is the name Girault?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,689 people named Girod in 2010, about 1 in 197 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Girault?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/giraultThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Girault”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.