Girard is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,994 at the 2020 census. It is allowance of the Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Girard’s history began past a petition to “Township Status” in 1832 by reassigning lands back allocated to neighboring municipalities (Springfield, Fairview, and Elk Creek). The publish is in tribute of Stephen Girard, a banking tycoon of the late 1700s and in advance 1800s. Stephen Girard, a resident of Philadelphia at that time, was chosen for a variety of reasons. He owned much of the adjoining Springfield Township, and had been admired by the residents in the region. Additionally, Girard officials had been lobbying subsequent to Stephen Girard’s foundation, upon his death in 1831, to be the site of the bequeathed Girard College. Despite this attempt, his family and will executors chose to confirm the boarding educational in Philadelphia where Stephen Girard had a long-standing tradition as a local philanthropist.

Girard is located in western Erie County at 42°0′21″N 80°19′17″W / 42.00583°N 80.32139°W / 42.00583; -80.32139 (42.005954, -80.321481). It is bordered to the northwest by the borough of Lake City and on whatever other sides by Girard Township.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.1 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km²), or 0.81%, is water. Elk Creek vis-а-vis follows the southwest border of the borough as it flows northwest to Lake Erie.