Gerarda
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gerarda is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard.
- NLNetherlands1 in 200◐
- USUnited States1 in 483K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 12K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈89K ●
- Sources
- 88 ●
- 1 in 200 ◐
across 9 countries
6.4K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard.
Sources 1
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Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #48 | 86,588△ | 501 rec. | 1 in 200 | 87K | Gerarda | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 749△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 283K | 1.1K | Gerarda | 4 |
| US United States | — | 689 | 4.1K rec. | 1 in 483K | 689 | Gerarda | 88 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 533 | 0 rec. | — | 533 | Gerarda | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | 433 | 418 rec. | — | — | Gerarda | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 408 | 0 rec. | 1 in 12K | 408 | Gerarda | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 265 | 242 rec. | — | 1 | Gerarda | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 263 | 247 rec. | — | — | Gerarda | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 183△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 273K | 203 | Gerarda | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 163 | 125 rec. | — | — | Gerarda | 25 |
| PL Poland | — | 160 | — | 1 in 239K | 160 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 126 | 128 rec. | — | — | Gerarda | 27 |
Roughly 87K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 200). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian103K30%
- English94K27%
- Dutch93K27%
- Spanish31K9%
- Portuguese14K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 102,715 | 30% |
| English | 93,578 | 27% |
| Dutch | 92,643 | 27% |
| Spanish | 31,394 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 13,612 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 |
| 1917 | 10 |
| 1918 | 8 |
| 1919 | 6 |
| 1922 | 7 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1940 | 6 |
| 1943 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 7 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1967 | 6 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1916–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 39 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 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 689 | #16,177 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 626 | — |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 533 | #2,570 |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 329 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gerarda?
- We estimate roughly 89 thousand people bear Gerarda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gerarda have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 87 thousand people bear Gerarda in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, 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 200 people carrying it.
- How common is Gerarda compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Gerarda is the 48th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Gerarda mean?
- Recorded meaning: A brave spear woman; feminine form of Gerard.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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” — the 48th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.