Gerda

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Female Name

Usage

Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish
Icelandic

Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Gerd (see Gerðr) ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

2) Short form of Gerdeke ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

3) German and Dutch pet form of Gerharda (see Gerhard) ^[6]

Related Names

Geardá	♀
Gerda	♀
Gerða	♀
Gärda	♀
Jäärda	♀

See also Gerdy and Jetta

Name Days

Norway

23 March

Finland (Swedish Language)

1 August

Sweden

23 March

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gerda
Accusative:	Gerdu
Dative:	Gerdu
Genitive:	Gerdu

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gerda
Accusative:	Gerdu
Dative:	Gerdu
Genitive:	Gerdu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1822 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[7]		10178	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[8]		1889	4785	0	0
Norway[9]		457	922	0	0
Finland[10]		n.a.	1619	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[9]:

Sources: ^{[8] [7] [9] [10]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
5. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
6. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
10. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi