Gertrude · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Gertrude.

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 1880

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 146 recorded years as a table

Gertrude, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1880	8,649
1881	8,602
1882	8,707
1883	8,218
1884	8,239
1885	8,162
1886	8,642
1887	8,570
1888	8,218
1889	8,651
1890	8,998
1891	8,869
1892	9,061
1893	8,506
1894	8,559
1895	9,113
1896	9,335
1897	9,116
1898	8,896
1899	9,055
1900	8,606
1901	8,206
1902	8,358
1903	8,600
1904	8,240
1905	7,805
1906	8,043
1907	7,845
1908	7,663
1909	7,551
1910	7,395
1911	6,921
1912	6,964
1913	6,429
1914	6,484
1915	6,177
1916	5,978
1917	5,826
1918	5,411
1919	5,322
1920	4,838
1921	4,338
1922	4,231
1923	3,896
1924	3,638
1925	3,197
1926	3,250
1927	2,942
1928	2,611
1929	2,441
1930	2,269
1931	1,967
1932	1,844
1933	1,606
1934	1,515
1935	1,359
1936	1,265
1937	1,240
1938	1,058
1939	996
1940	887
1941	825
1942	690
1943	621
1944	613
1945	508
1946	407
1947	396
1948	383
1949	384
1950	358
1951	310
1952	257
1953	224
1954	202
1955	190
1956	169
1957	147
1958	121
1959	109
1960	104
1961	86
1962	77
1963	88
1964	81
1965	63
1966	58
1967	43
1968	35
1969	31
1970	31
1971	33
1972	36
1973	38
1974	27
1975	29
1976	14
1977	13
1978	12
1979	12
1980	17
1981	13
1982	14
1983	13
1984	10
1985	8
1986	8
1987	6
1988	12
1989	9
1990	5
1991	7
1992	5
1993	4
1994	7
1995	5
1996	9
1997	4
1998	3
1999	7
2000	9
2001	6
2002	6
2003	5
2004	9
2005	8
2006	8
2007	9
2008	8
2009	4
2010	10
2011	10
2012	10
2013	10
2014	11
2015	15
2016	20
2017	15
2018	15
2019	20
2020	20
2021	18
2022	20
2023	19
2024	18
2025	11

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Gertrude 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 Gertrude

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025: 17
Rank in 2025: #6,546
How rare: 1 in 94,545 girls
Since 1880: 177,100

Most popular in 1896, at 9,335 per million girls born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has fallen by 27% per million girls born.

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