Entry № 3609 · German origin

Gerhild Gerhild — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A spear maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a spear maiden".

Gerhild is a name of German origin, meaning a spear maiden.

A spear maiden — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Gerhild
Transliteration
Gerhild
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gerhild is built from.

Gerhild is a compound name. Its parts are gair + hild — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

gair
Germanic
“spear”
hild
Germanic
“battle”

Where Gerhild stands.

Gerhild does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gerhilds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gerhild.

The number behind Gerhild.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gerhild reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.