Bard — boys' name

What the Data Says About Bard

The Social Security Administration has registered 218 babies named Bard between 1920 and 1979, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bard currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bard performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Bard shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Bard in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bard in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 218 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.