Gaillard Surname
Approximately 58,160 people bear this surname
Gaillard Surname Definition:
(Anglo-French-Teut.) Gay, Lively [Anglo-French galiard(e, gallard, gaylard, &c., French gaillard, jolly; O.Sax, gél-O.H.Ger. geil = O.E, gál, gay, &c. + the French intens.
suff. -ard, Teutonic hard, hard] Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe [wood].
Read More About This SurnameGaillard Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 47,916 | 1:1,386 | 72 |
| United States | 3,159 | 1:114,739 | 12,401 |
| Switzerland | 2,757 | 1:2,979 | 378 |
| Belgium | 901 | 1:12,760 | 1,916 |
| Argentina | 798 | 1:53,563 | 4,522 |
| Morocco | 341 | 1:101,103 | 17,469 |
| Netherlands | 282 | 1:59,884 | 10,315 |
| Canada | 270 | 1:136,465 | 14,092 |
| Saudi Arabia | 199 | 1:155,054 | 22,057 |
| Haiti | 166 | 1:64,361 | 3,593 |
| Italy | 164 | 1:372,907 | 43,105 |
| England | 155 | 1:359,471 | 25,733 |
| South Africa | 125 | 1:433,422 | 37,136 |
| Germany | 116 | 1:694,013 | 53,217 |
| Dominican Republic | 92 | 1:113,401 | 4,751 |
| Chile | 89 | 1:197,938 | 6,300 |
| Spain | 75 | 1:623,360 | 28,648 |
| Mexico | 63 | 1:1,970,257 | 18,660 |
| Saint Lucia | 62 | 1:2,884 | 447 |
| Australia | 57 | 1:473,609 | 36,415 |
| Thailand | 55 | 1:1,284,334 | 183,539 |
| New Caledonia | 36 | 1:7,673 | 1,760 |
| Luxembourg | 35 | 1:16,587 | 3,734 |
| Brazil | 32 | 1:6,689,823 | 158,565 |
| French Polynesia | 31 | 1:9,058 | 1,949 |
| Poland | 12 | 1:3,167,396 | 120,990 |
| Qatar | 12 | 1:196,500 | 26,891 |
| Northern Ireland | 11 | 1:167,731 | 8,683 |
| Tunisia | 9 | 1:67,847 | 8,246 |
| Wallis and Futuna | 9 | 1:1,512 | 26 |
| Denmark | 9 | 1:627,191 | 36,734 |
| China | 9 | 1:151,924,618 | 7,954 |
| Austria | 7 | 1:1,216,491 | 80,919 |
| Scotland | 7 | 1:764,831 | 25,488 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 6 | 1:16,528 | 1,436 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| Peru | 4 | 1:7,946,031 | 41,846 |
| Bolivia | 4 | 1:2,654,108 | 7,945 |
| Czechia | 4 | 1:2,658,367 | 127,801 |
| Senegal | 4 | 1:3,644,836 | 6,064 |
| New Zealand | 4 | 1:1,132,081 | 47,619 |
| Monaco | 3 | 1:12,355 | 2,088 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Wales | 3 | 1:1,031,511 | 34,732 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Mauritius | 2 | 1:646,708 | 13,517 |
| Barbados | 2 | 1:143,724 | 1,981 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 1 | 1:110,375 | 6,934 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| India | 1 | 1:767,065,382 | 1,851,717 |
| Costa Rica | 1 | 1:4,780,069 | 13,345 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1:23,649,837 | 9,420 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Burundi | 1 | 1:9,804,852 | 2,349 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 25 | 1:975,015 | 39,671 |
| Jersey | 7 | 1:7,412 | 1,296 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 867 | 1:57,922 | 6,435 |
Gaillard (124) may also be a first name.
Gaillard Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(Anglo-French-Teut.) Gay, Lively [Anglo-French galiard(e, gallard, gaylard, &c., French gaillard, jolly; O.Sax, gél-O.H.Ger. geil = O.E, gál, gay, &c. + the French intens.
suff. -ard, Teutonic hard, hard] Gaillard he was as goldfynch in the shawe [wood].—Chaucer, Cant. Tales, A 4367.
Cp. Gaillard and Gaylard.
(English) The gay or blithe person; descendant of Gaillard (gay).
User-submitted Reference
This surname derives from the Spanish adjetive gallardo, which means 'handsome' and 'brave'.
It is a deformation from the Catalan word gallart or the french equivalent, gallard or gaillard.
It comes from the french chevaliers in the Middle Ages, who came to Castile.
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Average Male Gaillard Height
174.25 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Gaillard Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Gaillard Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Gaillard is found in France more than any other country/territory. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Gaillard.
How Common Is The Last Name Gaillard? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 9,713th most commonly occurring surname throughout the world. It is borne by around 1 in 125,302 people. The surname Gaillard occurs mostly in Europe, where 89 percent of Gaillard live; 88 percent live in Western Europe and 87 percent live in Gallo-Europe. Gaillard is also the 836,439th most frequent first name internationally, held by 124 people.
Gaillard is most frequently used in France, where it is borne by 47,916 people, or 1 in 1,386. In France it is most common in: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 22 percent live, Île-de-France, where 14 percent live and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, where 13 percent live. Beside France it occurs in 87 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 5 percent live and Switzerland, where 5 percent live.
Gaillard Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Gaillard has changed over time. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 364 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 620 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Gaillard Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Gaillard surname are 9.09% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 55.86% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Gaillard earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 233.78% more than the national average, earning S/. 64,703 per year; in South Africa they earn 31.66% more than the national average, earning R 312,864 per year; in United States they earn 5.78% less than the national average, earning $40,654 USD per year and in Canada they earn 10.8% less than the national average, earning $44,315 CAD per year.
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