# Geraldine

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #30,437

## Definitions
1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A town in South Canterbury, New Zealand, named after the FitzGerald family.
3. A town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
4. A small town in Chouteau County, Montana, United States.

## Etymology
From Gerald + -ine. c. 1540 by the Earl of Surrey as a poetic name for Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, "one of the Fitzgeralds". Taken up as a given name in the 19th century, and used as a feminine form of Gerald.

## Common misspellings (13)
`egraldine`, `gearldine`, `geradline`, `geralddine`, `geraldien`, `geraldinne`, `geraldnie`, `geralidne`, `geralldine`, `gerladine`, `gerraldine`, `ggeraldine`, `grealdine`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/geraldine