What is the meaning of the name Gerald?

The meaning of the name Gerald is "spear ruler". The origin of the name is "German". The name Gerald is mostly used as a boys name.

Right pronunciation of Gerald

\ge-ra-ld\

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Gerald is a really popular first name for boys (#58) and also really popular as a last name (#4154). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this boys name above or write a comment on the name Gerald.

How popular is the name Gerald?

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The year 1942 was for Gerald a very good year. In that year there were 11480 births with the name Gerald. Find out if Gerald is in the top 100 boys names 1942 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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