Girard
Girard is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192637 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1900
- 1,717people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,717 boys have been named Girard in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 18%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Girard | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 11 | |
| 1910s | 129 | |
| 1920s | 264 | |
| 1930s | 211 | |
| 1940s | 245 | |
| 1950s | 307 | |
| 1960s | 220 | |
| 1970s | 118 | |
| 1980s | 112 | |
| 1990s | 83 | |
| 2000s | 17 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Girard was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Girard
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cleophuspeak 1947
- Rayfordpeak 1937
- Wardellpeak 1950
- Phillipspeak 1949
- Harrellpeak 1947
- Wendellpeak 1940
- Percellpeak 1953
- Bernellpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.