"Form of Gerard"
The name Gerad is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Gerad is a respelling of Gerard, the English form of the Germanic name Gerhard, which is formed from the elements ger, meaning spear, and hard, meaning brave or hardy. The single-r spelling appears in US birth records from 1952, well after Gerard was established in English, which fits a respelling rather than an independent coinage.
Gerard means "Spear-hard".
The pronunciation of Gerad is JER-ud.
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