Gertrude
About Gertrude
The name Gertrude peaked for girls at #22 in 1906. The name is most popular in California and California. Gertrude is occasionally used for boys in 1949.
2 syllables.
As of September 2026, Gertrude ranked #6632 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #22 in 1906.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | #4,115 | 36 | 20.3 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | #4,196 | 34 | 20.3 |
| 2020 | #4,291 | 32 | 19.8 |
| 2021 | #4,544 | 30 | 18.3 |
| 2022 | #4,405 | 32 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | #4,491 | 31 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | #4,683 | 29 | 17.9 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Famous Gertrudes
- Saint Gertrude the Great
German Benedictine mystic and theologian
- Saint Gertrude of Nivelles
Belgian abbess
- Gertrude of Hohenburg
Queen consort of Rudolph I of Germany
- Gertrude of Merania
Queen consort of Andrew II of Hungary
- Gertrude of Bavaria and Saxony
Queen consort of Canute VI of Denmark
- Gertrude Stein
American novelist
- Gertrude Chandler Warner
American children's novelist
- Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
American novelist
- Gertrude Jekyll
English garden designer
- Gertrude Bambrick
American silent film actress
- Gertrude Berg (born Tillie Edelstein)
American actress
- Gertrude Belle Elion
American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Gertrude Lawrence (born Gertrude Alice Dagmar Klasen)
English actress and singer
- Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett
American novelist
- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
English writer and spy
- Gertrude Caroline Ederle
American Olympic swimmer
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
American sculptor and art patron
- Gertrude Modora Bryan
American actress
- Gertrude Astor
American actress
- Gertrude Abercrombie
American painter
Gertrude in pop culture
- Gertrude
Hamlet's mother in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
- Gertrude "Gigi" Hollingsworth
character in TV's "Wizards of Waverly Place"
- Gertrude Lescot
character in "Sims" series
- "Gertrude McFuzz
" Dr. Seuss book
- Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes aka Arsenic
character in Marvel's Runaway comics
- Gertrude Von Harp
character in G. A. Henty's, By Pike and Dyke
- Candace Gertrude Flynn
character in "Phineas and Ferb"
- Gertrude "Mama Gertrude" Acachalla
A character from the YouTube channel VenturianTale
- Gertrude Trinke
character in the film Jersey Girl
- Gertrude "Trudy" Hardy
Fenton Hardy's sister and The Hardy Boys' aunt from "The Hardy Boys" series
- Gertrude Robinson
ex,archivist on "The Magnus Archives"
Variations & nicknames
- GeertaDutch
- GertraudGerman
- GertrudGerman
- GertrudaGerman