A female given name from Germanic languages occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.
Origin
Latinate variant of Scandinavian Gerd, from Old Norse Gerðr, garðr. The name occurs in nineteenth century Swedish poetry and in Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen (1844).
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