Geraldine
Geraldine or Géraldine is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Geraldine was originally an adjective to the Irish family name FitzGerald ("son of Gerald "). As a female first name, it was first used by the poet Henry Howard (1517-1547). It was later popularized by Coleridge's poem Christabel . The short form of Geraldine is Gerry .
geography
- Geraldine (New Zealand) , a town in the Timaru District of the Canterbury region on the South Island of New Zealand .
name day
The Latvian name day of Geraldine is the 26. April .
Name bearers
- Geraldine Apponyi (1915–2002), Queen of Albania
- Géraldine Bazán (born 1983), Mexican actress
- Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944), American actress
- Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), American opera singer
- Geraldine Ferraro (1935–2011), US Congresswoman and first female vice presidential candidate
- Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913–2005), Irish-American actress
- Geraldine Haacke-Guillaume (bourgeois Geraldine Haacke ; * 1982), German dubbing and radio play speaker
- Geraldine Hakewill (* 1987), Australian actress
- Geri Halliwell (actually Geraldine Estelle Halliwell ; * 1972), British pop singer
- Geraldine Kemper (* 1990), Dutch television presenter
- Geraldine McEwan (1932–2015), British film and stage actress
- Géraldine Nakache (* 1980), French actress
- Géraldine Olivier (* 1967), Swiss singer of popular hits
- Geraldine Page (1924–1987), American actress
- Géraldine Raths (* 1990), German actress
- Geraldine Somerville (born 1967), Irish actress
Web links
Wiktionary: Geraldine - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literature Name 13 - Geraldine at nancy.cc ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Duden: The Lexicon of First and Last Names , 2009, ISBN 978-3-411-90066-4
