Girard is a male first name.
Recently, the name Girard has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Girard. That means that a boy named Girard is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Girard.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Girard. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 344 Americans who bear this name. And these 344 men and boys named Girard live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Girard lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Girard and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Girard relative to its male population is Pennsylvania. And even there, only one male in 41,727 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Girard.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Girard is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Girard and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Girard, you can simply say:
Goat
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Girard
Girard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
I
R
A
R
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
I
R
A
R
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Girard sounds like this:
