Gerarda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɣeɾaɾða/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gerarda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 198(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 12K
- PEPeru≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
87,413 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard.
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gerarda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 87,413 | 1 in 198 | 87K | Gerarda | 48 |
| IT Italy | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 2 | Gerarda | 21 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Gerarda | 10 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Gerarda | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 749 | 1 in 283K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| VE Venezuela | 533 | 1 in 54K | 533 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 408 | 1 in 12K | 408 | — | — |
87,413 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gerarda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, feminine of Gerard
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, weibl. Vom., Nebenform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christina Enschedéb. 1791NLnot in their usual namepainter from the Northern Netherlands (1791-1873)
- Gerarda Alida Lütkemannb. 1869NLDutch opera singer (1869-1942)
- Gerarda Hurenkamp-Bosgoedb. 1870NLSupercentenarians from the Netherlands
- G. van Nes-Uilkensb. 1877NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer (1877–1952)
- Grada Wolffenspergerb. 1887NLnot in their usual nameDutch architect (1887-1965)
- Atie Ridder-Visserb. 1914NLnot in their usual nameDutch resistance fighter during WWII (1914–2014)
- Gerti Hesselingb. 1946NLnot in their usual nameDutch university teacher
- Anne Marie de Smetb. 1959NLnot in their usual nameDutch university teacher
- Giuseppina Barbierib. 1971ITnot in their usual nameItalian mathematician
- Nicole van Hoorenb. 1973NLnot in their usual namebadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 87K | #18 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16K | #236 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.1K | #4,328 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.1K | #8,754 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 825 | #1,188 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 749 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 741 | #10,115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 729 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 693 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 626 | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 533 | #2,570 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 493 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gerarda mean, and where does it come from?
- A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Gerarda?
- In the etymology graph, Gerdina is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gerarda?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣeɾaɾða/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Gerarda a male or female name?
- Gerarda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gerarda have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 87 thousand people named Gerarda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gerarda.
- Where is Gerarda most common?
- Gerarda is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 198 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gerarda?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 87,413 people named Gerarda, about 1 in 198 residents.
What do you want to know about Gerarda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gerardaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gerarda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.