Gerda

Scandinavian

"enclosure, stronghold"

Gerda Origin and Meaning

The name Gerda is a girl's name of Scandinavian, Latvian origin meaning "enclosure, stronghold".

Mythological goddess of fertility whose name seems, ironically, among the least attractive.

Gerda Rank in US Top 1000

# 950 in the US

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Famous People Named Gerda

• Gerda Gottlieb Wegener Danish artist
• Gerda Weissensteiner Italian Olympic luger
• Gerda Hedwig Lerner American academic, founder of the field of women's history
• Gerda Taro German war photographer
• Gerritje "Gerda" Verburg Dutch diplomat and politician

The name Gerda in Pop Culture

• Gerda character in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"
• Gerda Solent (née Torp) wife of the eponymous history teacher Wolf Solent in J. C. Powys's 1929 novel "Wolf Solent"
• Gerda Mannheim German refugee in "The World in the Evening" (1954) by Christopher Isherwood
• Gerda character on Dutch TV's "Sesamstraat"
• Queen Gerda character in the tv show Once Upon a Time

International Variations of the name Gerda

• Gerde German