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Gerarda ("Gerda") Lassooij is a retired Dutch swimmer. She competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley events, but failed to reach the finals.
Gerarda ("Gerda") Kraan is a retired female middle distance runner from the Netherlands, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1960 (Rome) and 1964 (Tokyo). In 1962 she won the gold medal in the women's 800 metres race at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade.
Serious, strong, really mature name. I like it. Also really rare in these days. It's unusual, but it has good quality!
Also Estonian: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda
Also used in Esperanto: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gerda#Esperanto
Also used in Hungary: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda.
I quite dislike the German form. Too austere and strong.
Gerda is a character in the Andersen story 'The Snow Queen'.
Gerda is also a Hungarian name.
St Gerda's day is March 5.
This is the first name of a Holocaust survivior - Gerda Weissmann!
Listen to the German pronunciation of Gerda here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.
Dutch pronunciation is KHER-dah. [noted -ed]
Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron's mother's name is Gerda.

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