Gerald

Proper noun

Gerald (countable and uncountable, plural Geralds)

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • Helen interrupted her sister, by asking her opinion of the how the name, Gerald Vernon, sounded.
     "Oh, charmingly!" said Charlotte, and, raising herself above her sister, and reclining her splendid head upon her arm, continued she, "Why, do you know such a one?"
     "I do," said Helen, "It's a pretty...1855, Maturin Murray Ballou, The Turkish Spies Ali Abubeker Kaled, and Zenobia Marrita Mustapha., A.R.Orton, page 150
   • "You're saying my father's favourite names were Gerald and Candless?"
   • "Not likely, is it? But Gerald must have been a favourite name with Kathleen and George Candless or they wouldn't have called their son by it?"1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. →ISBN page 168
2. A surname.
3. A village in the Rural Municipality of Spy Hill No. 152, Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. A former unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama.
5. An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois.
6. An unincorporated community in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana.
7. A small city in Franklin County, Missouri.
8. An unincorporated community in Henry County, Ohio.
9. The former name of Ponder, a town in Texas.