Etymology

Gerda

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Today it means: A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900. Full definition →

Old Norse Gerðr
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  1. Old Norse · derived fromGerðr
  2. English todayGerda

Latinate variant of Scandinavian Gerd, from Old Norse Gerðr, garðr (“protection”). The name occurs in nineteenth century Swedish poetry and in Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen (1844).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.