Geri: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Geri – Origin: English (modern hypocorism) – Gender: Unisex


Geri is an English (modern hypocorism) unisex name. It appears in our list of 100+ Norse Mythology Baby Names — Epic, Ancient, and Surprisingly Wearable.

Meaning & Origin of Geri

Origin: English (modern hypocorism).

A common claim: Greedy Actually: This 'Greedy' meaning belongs to the separate Old Norse mythological wolf-name Geri, not the modern English name documented here, which is simply a short form of Geraldine with no independent meaning of its own.

Source: Wiktionary, Wikipedia.

Popularity of Geri

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration birth-name data, 1918–2018.

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