Guichard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wig ‘battle’, ‘combat’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟiʃaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guichard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 544K
- RERéunion≈1 in 24K
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
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wig ‘battle’, ‘combat’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guichard 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 | #182 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 2.1K | Guichard | 307 |
| US United States | — | 611 | 1 in 544K | 627 | Guichard | 123 |
| HT Haiti | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 217 | 1 in 39K | 217 | Guichard | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 369K | listed | Guichard | 47 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 53 | 1 in 64K | 53 | — | — |
| RE Réunion | #439 | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Guichard | 12 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Guichard is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, du nom germanique Wīghard, de wīg « combat » et hard « dur, fort »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, of the elements wig war 4- hard brave, hardy, strong. Cogns.: Ger.: Weich(h)ard, Weichert, Weickert, Weigert.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Karl Gottlieb Guichardb. 1724DEGerman writer (1724-1775)
- Joseph Guichardb. 1806FRFrench painter (1806-1880)
- Édouard Guichardb. 1815FRFrench architect and decorator
- Geoffroy Guichardb. 1867FRFrench entrepreneur and sports administrator
- Olivier Guichardb. 1920FRFrench politician (1920-2004)
- Jean Guichardb. 1952FRFrench photographer of lighthouses
- Éric Guichardb. 1953FRFrench cinematographer
- Yann Guichardb. 1974FRFrench navigator
- Clémence Poésyb. 1982FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress and model
- Pauline Guichardb. 1988FRFrench chess 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 627 | #38,070 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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 Guichard mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wig ‘battle’, ‘combat’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guichard?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟiʃaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Guichard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Guichard in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guichard.
- How common is the name Guichard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 611 people named Guichard in 2010, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
- How common is Guichard compared with other names?
- In France, Guichard is the 182nd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guichardThe 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, “Guichard” — the 182nd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.