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Gerarda

Girls' name

Feminine form of Gerard

Gerarda has been given to 158 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Gerarda, 1992

1 in 768,000

Gerarda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gerarda: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Gerard

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gerarda means

Gerarda is a feminine form of Gerard.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gerarda is used in Italian and Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d͡ʒe.ˈrar.da/ and /ɣeː.ˈrɑr.daː/ for Gerarda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Gerarda is a feminine form of Gerard. Gerard has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gerard.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 158 girls were recorded with the name Gerarda between 1916 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,963 in 1917.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Gerarda?

Gerarda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gerarda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gerarda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gerardas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gerarda was born before 1949 — so the typical Gerarda is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
26.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
78
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1950s — 26.6% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Gerarda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (10)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,963
1917

Spellings of Gerarda

Gerarda is not the most common spelling — Meranda is, with 44.3% against Gerarda's 2.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gerarda is used

Across 1910–2025, Gerarda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,046,820 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gerarda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gerarda around the world

Where Gerarda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1930–1952
    #1,532
    in 1952
  • South Australia
    1954–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gerarda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,963
1917
Peak year
1917
10 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gerarda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GermaniGerdaGermanyGeriannGertrueGerardoGerricaGerleneGertudeGeraldyGereneLaverdaGeraldaGerilynnGerleanGericaGerturdeGeraldinGerlineGerardGeraleneGermainRenardaEduarda

Sibling names for Gerarda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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