Where Does the Garrard Surname Come From?

Garrard is one more way Garrett has been written over the centuries. Name scholars give the meaning as “Spear-hard or spear-rule (from Gerard or Gerald)”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• The 2010 US Census counted 3,353 people named Garrard, ranking it number 9,683 among American surnames. That puts it among the top 10,000 US surnames.
• Before spelling was fixed, Garrett was also written Garrard.
• The same family of names includes Garred, Garratt and Garret.

Heraldry and the Garrard name

Arms linked to Garrett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Garrard surname pack.