Giroud

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname, Giroud, equivalent to English Gerald

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʒiʁud/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Giroud is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 8.4K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 591K
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Switzerland (measured from records)

995 people, 2024

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a surname, Giroud, equivalent to English Gerald

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Giroud 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.

Where Giroud is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland9951 in 8.4K995Giroud10
AR Argentina771 in 591K77Giroud20
ES Spain241 in 2.1M24Giroud20
BR Brazil221 in 9.6M22Giroud21
BE Belgium91 in 1.3M9—1
CZ Czechia41 in 2.7M4——

995 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Giroud is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Algeria, Kuwait, Switzerland

    Also written Girôud, Gîrõúd

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Robert Giroud, b. 1890Alberto Bayo, b. 1892Françoise Giroud, b. 1916Michel Giroud, b. 1940Olivier Giroud, b. 1943Frank Giroud, b. 1956Monique Giroud, b. 1963Pavel Giroud, b. 1972Thibault Giroud, b. 1974Olivier Giroud, b. 1986
  • Robert Giroudb. 1890FRFrench architect (1890–1943)
  • Alberto Bayob. 1892CUnot in their usual nameCuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (1892-1967)
  • Françoise Giroudb. 1916FRFrench writer and politician (1916–2003)
  • Michel Giroudb. 1940FRFrench art critic, poet, musician, contemporary and avant-garde historian
  • Olivier Giroudb. 1943FRFrench sculptor
  • Frank Giroudb. 1956FRFrench comic writer
  • Monique Giroudb. 1963FRFrench physicist and activist from Grenoble
  • Pavel Giroudb. 1972CUCuban filmmaker
  • Thibault Giroudb. 1974FRFrench physical trainer, rugby union footballer and coach, American footballer
  • Olivier Giroudb. 1986FRFrench footballer (born 1986)

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)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Giroud, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Giroud
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024995#1,192
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—77—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—24#74,421
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—24#73,510
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22#183,107
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20089#74,886
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—4#139,413

Reference works 2

  • 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

What does the name Giroud mean, and where does it come from?
a surname, Giroud, equivalent to English Gerald Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Giroud?
A machine transcription gives /ʒiʁud/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Giroud have the most bearers?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 995 people named Giroud, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giroud.
Where is Giroud most common?
Giroud is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Giroud?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 995 people named Giroud in 2024, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Giroud”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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