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• Gerard
  Gerard

  noun

  Also a male given name, form of Gerald.
• Gérard
  Gérard

  noun

  Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

Gerard

¹ American  

[juh-rahrd] / dʒəˈrɑrd /

noun

1. Also a male given name, form of Gerald.

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Gérard ² American  

[zhey-rahr] / ʒeɪˈrɑr /

noun

1. Comte Étienne Maurice 1773–1852, French marshal under Napoleon.

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Gérard British  

/ ʒerar /

noun

1. François ( Pascal Simon ), Baron. 1770–1837, French painter, court painter to Napoleon I and Louis XVIII

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Example Sentences

Fr Gerard Mongan, administrator of Long Tower parish, said people from all over Ireland had come to the retreat.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Gerard MacDonell, an economist at 22V Research, said in a note that Powell’s remarks were actually more dovish than they looked on the surface.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Even Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, hardly a left-wing firebrand, quipped that the address was so full of fictions he was beginning to doubt whether the USA men’s hockey team actually won gold.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

She met Gerard Davitt, a ball-bearings salesman, when she was working as a bank teller in Hartford, Conn., and he came in to cash his paycheck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson