Eberhard
Fewer than 80 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in the years the registers cover this century. A Germanic name meaning "brave boar", now down among the rare ones most Poles have never met.
Eberhard Pronunciation
Eberhard is pronounced e-BER-khahrt (/ɛˈbɛrxart/).
What Eberhard means
Where Eberhard comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Eberhard begins in Germanic soil. The first part, eber, means "boar." The second, hard, means "brave" or "hardy." Put them together and you get "brave boar," a warrior's name from a people who read courage in the animal that turns and charges instead of running.
The boar was no insult. Among early Germanic fighters it stood for nerve that holds under pressure, and it decorated helmets and shields.
One bearer fixed the name in German history. Eberhard im Bart, Eberhard I of Württemberg, founded the University of Tübingen in 1477 and later became the duchy's first duke. His court made the name a marker of German nobility, and it stayed most at home in German-speaking lands, where it never picked up the diminutives or variants that soften other names.
In a Polish class register today the name looks foreign, and it is rare here. What it holds is plain and old: eber and hard, the brave boar.
When Eberhard celebrates name day
Eberhard appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 23 March.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Eberhard
1 in 273669 men in Poland is named Eberhard. 78 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4026 among male names.
Eberhard as a middle name
Eberhard is a first name for 78 men in Poland and a middle name for another 54, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1018th, between Barry (54) and Eliezer (54).
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#1016 Vijay55
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#1017 Barry54
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#1018 Eberhard54
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#1019 Eliezer54
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#1020 Kyle54