Popular Names
GERARD Name
| Name: | Gerard |
| Gender: | Male and Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Dutch, English, French, German, Teutonic |
| Meaning: | Brave |
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been."