Popular Names
GERARD Name
| Name: | Gerard |
| Gender: | Male and Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Dutch, English, French, German, Teutonic |
| Meaning: | Brave |
Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."