Gotard
Just 29 men in Poland carry this name, and no boys have been given it in years. A Germanic name at root, from elements meaning "strong in god".
Gotard Pronunciation
Gotard is pronounced GO-tahrt (/ˈgɔtart/).
What Gotard means
Where Gotard comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gotard rests on two old Germanic pieces: god, meaning god, and hard, meaning strong or brave. Put together they were read as strong in god, silny w Bogu. The older Latinised form was Godehard, and the hard in it once pointed to firmness of will.
The name found a real bearer in Gotard of Hildesheim, born around 960 in Bavaria and bishop of that city until his death on 5 May 1038. Rome canonised him in 1131. He became a patron of builders and masons, and travellers prayed to him for safe crossings. The high Alpine pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Gotthard, still keeps his name.
In Poland the name is rare. His imieniny falls on 5 May, with a second date on 6 July. A boy named Gotard shares that spring day with a bishop who watched over stonemasons, and the name still reads as silny w Bogu.
When Gotard celebrates name day
Gotard appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 5 May.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 Gotard
1 in 736075 men in Poland is named Gotard. 29 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7648 among male names.
Gotard as a middle name
Gotard is a first name for 29 men in Poland and a middle name for another 40, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1253rd, between Dragomir (40) and Inocenty (40).
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#1251 Cyril40
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#1252 Dragomir40
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#1253 Gotard40
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#1254 Inocenty40
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#1255 Jair40