Gerry vs Gerald - What's the difference?
gerry | gerald |
A diminutive of the male given names Gerald and Gerard.
A diminutive of the female given name Geraldine.
English diminutives of male given names
English diminutives of female given names
brought to England by Normans. It survived in Ireland, and was revived in the 19th century.
* 1855 Maturin Murray Ballou: The Turkish Spies Ali Abubeker Kaled, and Zenobia Marrita Mustapha. A.R.Orton 1855. page 150:
* 1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy . ISBN 0670879274 page 168:
A city in Missouri.
A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Gerry is a related term of gerald.
gerry
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)gerald
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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 name, that's all," and she tried to draw her sister's attention off, - - -
- "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?"