Gerald

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • Helen interrupted her sister, by asking her opinion of the how the name, Gerald Vernon, sounded. "Oh, charmingly!" said Charlotte, and, raising herself above her sister, and reclining her splendid head upon her arm,...
    • "You're saying my father's favourite names were Gerald and Candless?" "Not likely, is it? But Gerald must have been a favourite name with Kathleen and George Candless or they wouldn't have called their son by it?" -...
    • The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery. - 2015 June 18, Nate Chinen, “Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the...
  2. A surname.
  3. A placename

    1. A village in the Rural Municipality of Spy Hill No. 152, Saskatchewan, Canada.

    2. A place in the United States.

      A former unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama.

    3. A place in the United States.

      An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois.

    4. A place in the United States.

      An unincorporated community in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana.

    5. A place in the United States.

      A small city in Franklin County, Missouri.

    6. A place in the United States.

      An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.

    7. A place in the United States.

      The former name of Ponder, a town in Texas.

Origin

From Old French, ultimately from Frankish *gaiʀ (“spear”) + *wald (“might, power”). The name was brought to England by the Normans. It survived in Ireland, and was revived in the 19th century.

Forms

Geralds

Related

Jerald Jerrold Garrett Gerry Jerry Geraldine Jerilyn Fitzgerald Giraud Giroud Geralds Geraldson

Derived

Fitzgerald Geralds Geraldson