boys:
1.7k births since 1900
#2992 (35th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1900
#6033 (22nd percentile)
The name Girard is the #6,033 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,717 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 22.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,992 (34.7% percentile) for all time with 1,717 births since 1900.
Girard first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for boys in 1900). Birth data for Girard is available in 94 out of the 104 years between 1900 and 2003. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Girard reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #519) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Girard".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Girard. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Girard is pronounced as jih-RAHRD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jer-AHRD, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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