Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 Gerard
/jeh · RARD/
Meaning
“Brave spear”
From Old Germanic 'ger' (spear) and 'hard' (brave, strong); carried across medieval Europe through the cult of Saint Gerard Majella, patron of expectant mothers.
Nicknames
gerry
Vibe
strong
How it ages.
Peaked in the mid-20th century in English-speaking countries; retro but not yet reviving.
The cultural moment.
Top 50 in Ireland and the UK through the 1950s-1960s; rare for newborns since the 1990s.