Girard

At the 2020 census, 12,133 Americans bore the surname Girard — 2,891st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,600.

By the numbers

People: 12,133
Rank: 2,891st
How common: 1 in 24,600
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Girard described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Girard

René Girard (1923–2015)French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
Albert Girard (1595–1632)French mathematician
René Girard (born 1954)French football manager
Patricia Girard (born 1968)French athlete
Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895)French zoologist
Christine Girard (born 1985)Canadian weightlifter
Samuel Girard (born 1996)Canadian short-track speed skater
Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836)French mathematician and engineer

People named Girard with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Girard

Also a first name

Girard has been given to 1,717 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.