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The GERARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,646 3767 0.003 32
United States (1880 census) 2,031 2948 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +6615 -819 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 260 5933 0.002 16
United Kingdom 563 8155 0.001 12
Top States for GERARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 771 3802 0.002 23
New York 734 2526 0.004 39
Florida 713 2823 0.004 45
Michigan 574 1913 0.006 58
Illinois 464 2726 0.004 37
Top States for GERARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 105 2102 0.008 82
Iowa 190 1913 0.006 65
Louisiana 282 2125 0.006 63
Minnesota 302 1906 0.006 61
Michigan 574 1913 0.006 58

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GERARD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GERARD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GERARD in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GERARD by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GERARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GERARD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GERARD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GERARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 598 6.92
White (Hispanic) 210 2.43
Mixed Race 173 2
Asian/Pacific 71 0.82
Native American/Alaskan 39 0.45
White (Caucasian) 7,555 87.38

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GERARD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GERARD in historical publications

(origin: Teut.) From Gar, all, and ard, nature; apt, docile; one ready to do or learn, amiable.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


GERARD. A Norman personal name, probably identical with Gerald. In the H.R. it is written Fil' Gerardi. The baronet's family derive their origin from the same ancestor as the Dukes of Leiuster and many other noble houses, viz., from Other, Castellan of AViudsor, temp. Edw. Confessor, whose grandson Gerard, or Gerald, had a son William Fitz-Gerard, who founded the Cheshire and Lancashire Gerards. The family have possessed Bryu, in the latter county, uuiuterruptedly from temp. Edw. III. Courthope's Debrett.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to GERARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GERARD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GERARD

The following words are slight variants of GERARD that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.