Gerda

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Gerda

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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).

proper noun

A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.

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@misc{gerda_2026,
  title = {Gerda},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gerda},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}