Gertha · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Gertha.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1883

Hover over or drag across the chart to see any year.

Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 81 recorded years as a table

Gertha, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1883	62
1885	38
1887	34
1888	28
1889	39
1891	27
1892	33
1893	23
1894	22
1895	64
1896	42
1897	51
1898	27
1899	51
1900	37
1901	67
1902	57
1903	53
1904	65
1905	65
1906	68
1907	47
1908	24
1909	55
1910	55
1911	60
1912	63
1913	27
1914	41
1915	54
1916	32
1917	49
1918	42
1919	36
1920	43
1921	47
1922	42
1923	33
1924	31
1925	34
1926	40
1927	35
1928	23
1929	29
1930	38
1931	28
1932	31
1933	27
1934	25
1935	31
1936	21
1937	20
1938	23
1939	26
1940	29
1941	27
1942	18
1943	17
1944	21
1945	18
1946	14
1947	11
1948	11
1949	12
1950	11
1951	10
1952	11
1953	10
1954	9
1955	10
1956	5
1957	7
1958	5
1959	5
1960	4
1961	4
1962	3
1963	4
1964	4
1967	4
1971	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Gertha isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Gertha

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1971: 5
Rank in 1971: #8,324
How rare: 1 in 332,764 girls
Since 1883: 1,792

Gertha was last recorded in 1971. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1906, at 68 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Gertha doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.