Gerald

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

German and English younger form of Gerwald

Related Names

See Gerwald

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Geraldsen
Geraldsson

Female

Geraldsdatter
Geraldsdotter
Geraldsdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gerald
Genitive:	Geralds

- Finnish
Nominative:	Gerald
Genitive:	Geraldin
Partitive:	Geraldia

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Gerald
Accusative:	Gerald
Dative:	Gerald
Genitive:	Geralds

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gerald
Genitive:	Geralds

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gerald
Genitive:	Geralds

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Sweden: 1865
• Norway: 1887 (born in England)

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway: 1935-1940
• Sweden: 1910-1939

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Sydsverige
  • Västsverige
  • Gotland

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 323 people were named Gerald (percentage of first or only given name: 17 %)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		132	372	0	3	132	369
Finland		n.a.	284	0	0	n.a.	284
Denmark		76	n.a.	0	n.a.	76	n.a.
Iceland		4	17	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		72	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	72	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gerald.