Guerard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of war(in) ‘guard’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡeaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guerard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 651K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 199K
- FRFrance≈1 in 286K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
511 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Guérard in FR France, BE Belgium, 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(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name composed of war(in) ‘guard’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guerard 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 | 511 | 1 in 651K | 511 | Guerard | 163 |
| FR France | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 286K | 445 | Guérard | 94 |
| CA Canada | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Guerard | 73 |
| BR Brazil | 80 | 1 in 2.6M | 80 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 59 | 1 in 199K | 59 | Guérard | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Guérard | 4 |
511 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Guerard 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 English, Michel, French chef
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Benjamin Guerardb. 1740USlawyer and politician (1739-1788)
- Patrick Guerardb. 1953FRFrench politician
- Noël Guérardb. 1956FRFrench politician
- Hervé Guerardb. 1966FRFrench politician
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 12 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 680 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 573 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 571 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 570 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 511 | #42,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 501 | #45,922 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 501 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 474 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 449 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 445 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 429 | #46,678 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 383 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Guerard mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of war(in) ‘guard’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guerard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡeaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Guerard have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 511 people named Guerard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guerard.
- Where is Guerard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guerard is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Guerard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Guerard in 2010, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Guerard?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guerardThe 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, “Guerard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.