Given name
Geralda
“one who rules with the spear”
Geralda is a variant of Geraldine. In German use, Geraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Geralda is a variant of Geraldine. In German use, Geraldine carries the interpretation “one who rules with the spear.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Geralda is a variant of Geraldine. The history of Geraldine gives this family its wider story. The Earl of Surrey created Geraldine in the sixteenth century in a poem praising Lady Fitzgerald. Geraldine remained little used for a time before becoming more established in the eighteenth century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Geralda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 66
- 0 boys · 66 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 487 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Geralda’s family of names
Geralda has a related form in Geraldine.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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