The GIRARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,407	2677	0.005	46
United States (1880 census)	1,044	5261	0.002	21
Change since 1880	+11363	+2584	+0.003	+25
Other Countries
Australia	106	13608	0.001	6
United Kingdom	199	16502	0	4

Top States for GIRARD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,218	628	0.019	192
Florida	975	1913	0.006	61
California	929	3044	0.003	27
New York	807	2097	0.004	43
Michigan	749	1308	0.008	75
Top States for GIRARD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	322	309	0.041	411
Rhode Island	370	249	0.035	353
New Hampshire	363	438	0.029	294
Maine	249	937	0.020	195
Massachusetts	1,218	628	0.019	192

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of GIRARD

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GIRARD 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.

Ethnic distribution of GIRARD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	270	2.18
Black/African American	239	1.93
Mixed Race	205	1.65
Asian/Pacific	77	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	46	0.37
White (Caucasian)	11,570	93.25

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

Similar names to GIRARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GIRARD.

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.