Celebrity Baby Names: Geri Halliwell

First name origin: German

First name meaning: Hard spear; feminine version of Gerald

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Last name origin: Northern English (Lancashire)

Last name meaning: habitational name from a place near Manchester called Halliwell, from Old English hālig ‘holy’ + well(a) ‘well’, ‘spring’, or from any of the numerous other places named with these elements (see Hollowell).

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