Gerarda
A Germanic name meaning "brave with the spear", the feminine counterpart of Gerard. Just 67 women in Poland carry it and none were born last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Gerarda Pronunciation
Gerarda is pronounced ge-RAHR-dah (/gɛˈrarda/).
What Gerarda means
Where Gerarda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gerarda is the feminine form of Gerard, a Germanic name assembled from two old words. Ger meant spear. Hard meant brave or strong. Together they give the short meaning that has followed the name for centuries: brave with the spear.
The masculine Gerard travelled widely, and Poland kept it, alongside the rarer spelling żerard. Gerarda is the woman who carries the same root. It stays uncommon on Polish class registers.
The spear in the name is not decoration. It points back to a warlike vocabulary of early Germanic names, where courage was named directly. A girl called Gerarda inherits that root, softened by grammar into a feminine ending. On an official form at the urząd, the name still resolves to its two parts: the spear, and the bravery to hold it.
When Gerarda celebrates name day
Gerarda appears 11 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 24 September.
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.
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in 142 days30 JanuarySaturday in 2027
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in 175 days4 MarchThursday in 2027
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in 225 days23 AprilFriday in 2027
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in 245 days13 MayThursday in 2027
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in 269 days6 JuneSunday in 2027
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in 276 days13 JuneSunday in 2027
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in 358 days3 SeptemberFriday in 2027
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in 36 days16 OctoberFriday in 2026
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in 110 days29 DecemberTuesday in 2026
How many people are named Gerarda
1 in 336475 women in Poland is named Gerarda. 67 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4432 among female names.
Gerarda as a middle name
Gerarda is a first name for 67 women in Poland and a middle name for another 94, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 688th, between Susanne (95) and Megan (94).
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#686 Madeleine95
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#687 Susanne95
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#688 Gerarda94
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#689 Megan94
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#690 Nadine94