| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɛrəld/ JERR-əld |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "rule of the spear", "bright spear" |
| Region of origin | Germanic |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jerrold, Geraldine, Jerald, Gerard Jerry, Gerry, Gerhard, Geert |
Gerald is a masculine Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ger- ("spear") and suffix -wald ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the feminine nickname Jeri and the Welsh language Gerallt and Irish language Gearalt. Gerald is less common as a surname. The name is also found in French as Gérald. Geraldine is the feminine equivalent.[1]
Given name
People with the name Gerald include:[1]
Politicians
- Gerald Boland, Ireland's longest-serving Minister for Justice
- Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor from 1964 to 1970
- Gerald Häfner, German MEP
- Gerald Klug, Austrian politician
- Gerald Lascelles (disambiguation), several people
- Gerald Nabarro, British Conservative politician
- Gerald S. McGowan, US Ambassador to Portugal
- Gerald Van Woerkom, American former member of the Michigan Legislature in both the House and Senate
- Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, British diplomat, soldier, and architect
Sports
- Gerald Asamoah, Ghanaian-born German football player
- Gerald Beverly, American basketball player
- Gerald Brown (American football), American football coach
- Gerald Christian (born 1991), American football player
- Gerald Davies, Welsh rugby player
- Gerald Dockery, American football player
- Gerald Everett, American football player
- Gerald Green, American basketball player
- Gerald "Dusty" Hannahs (born 1993), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Gerald Humphries, English cricketer
- Gerald Laird, American baseball player
- Gerald Madkins (born 1969), American basketball player and executive
- Gerald Melzer, Austrian tennis player
- Gerald Sensabaugh, American football player
- Gerald Sherry, American football player
- Gerald Wallace, American basketball player
- Gerald Willis (born 1995), American football player
Entertainment
- Gerald Anderson (born 1989), Filipino American actor
- Gerald Casale, vocalist, bass guitar & synthesizer player, Devo
- Gerry Cinnamon (born Gerald Crosbie, 1985), Scottish musician
- Gerald Finzi, British composer
- Gerald Fried (1928–2023), American composer
- Gerald Harper (born 1929), English actor
- Gerald Haslam, American author The Other California
- Gerald Alexander Held, German actor
- Gerald Levert (1966–2006), American R&B singer and songwriter
- Gerald Masters, songwriter and musician
- Gerald McRaney (b. 1947), American actor
- Gérald Neveu (1921-1960), French poet
- Jerry Stiller (1927-2020), American actor and comedian and the father of Ben Stiller.
- Gerald Vizenor, novelist, poet and critic
- Gerald Gillum, American rapper known as "G-Eazy"
- Gerald Wiley, a pseudonym used by British comic actor and writer Ronnie Barker (1929-2005)
Other fields
- Gerald Birks, Canadian World War I fighter ace
- Gerald Bull, Canadian aerospace/artillery engineer
- Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times
- Gerald Cohen (1941–2009), Canadian professor of social and political theory at Oxford University, known as G. A. Cohen
- Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter
- Lady Gerald Fitzalan-Howard, British aristocrat
- Gerald Friedland, American academic
- Gerald Murphy, American heir
- Gerald Ratner, British retail tycoon
- Gerald Mayo, filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in US District Court
- Gerald Shur (1933-2020), American lawyer, and the founder of the US Federal Witness Protection Program
- Gerald Sparrow (1903–1988), British lawyer, judge and travel writer
- Gerald Templer, British Army officer and military commander
- Gerald C. Thomas, United States Marine Corpsgeneral who served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Gerald Zamponi, Canadian academic
Fictional characters
- Gerald Tippett, a character in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
- Gerald Robotnik, a character from Sonic Adventure 2
- Gerald Broflovski, a character from South Park
- Gerald Martin Johanssen, a character from Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!
- Gerald, a anthropomorphic sea lion in the 2016 computer-animated sequel film Finding Dory
- Gerald McCloy, protagonist in 1950 short film Gerald McBoing-Boing
- Gerald, a character from Little Lotta comics and Harvey Street Kids
- Gerald O'Hara, Scarlett O'Hara's father in the film Gone with the Wind
Surname
- Matt Gerald, American actor and screenwriter
See also
References
- 1 2 "View Name: Gerald". behindthename.com. Retrieved 2007-12-30.
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