Geraint as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Geraint

What is the meaning of the name Geraint ?

The baby name Geraint is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈɡɛraɪnt/ (approx. "GER-EYENT").

Geraint is Welsh in Origin.

Geraint is a Welsh masculine name with roots in Old Welsh, widely held to derive from the Latin Gerontius, itself from Greek gerōn “old man, elder”; the sense is usually rendered “venerable” or “elderly/aged” in name glosses. It is unrelated to Germanic Ger- names like Gerard despite superficial similarity.

The name was borne by early rulers of Dumnonia (Devon/Cornwall), including a figure recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as Gerent (d. 710), and by the legendary Geraint ap Erbin, a warrior of Arthurian tradition. His romance with Enid forms a tale in the Mabinogion and inspired Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (“Geraint and Enid”), which helped sustain recognition in English. Usage revived in Wales in the 19th–20th centuries and remains familiar today. Variant forms and historical spellings include Gerent, Gerant, Gereint, and the Latinized Gerontius; the standard modern Welsh form is Geraint.

⚙ Geraint is an uncommon pick. There are only 41 recorded uses of it in our data, from 14 countries.