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Gertie

Girls' name

Spear + strength, through Gertrude

Gertie has been given to 8,532 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 220 recorded.

Babies named Gertie, 2022

1 in 376,000

Gertie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gertie: meaning, origin, and history

Spear + strength, through Gertrude

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gertie means

Gertie belongs to the name family reached through Gertie → Gertrude. Its meaning is “spear + strength”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gertie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gertrude.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,532 girls were recorded with the name Gertie between 1880 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 220 in 1918; its best national rank was #205 in 1882.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gertie?

Gertie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 376,000
9 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 182,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
260,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gertie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 260,760 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gertie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gerties were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gertie was born before 1917 — so the typical Gertie is around 108 today.

Median birth year
1917
About 108 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.52%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (1,745).

Is Gertie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (220)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#205
1882

Spellings of Gertie

Gertie is not the most common spelling — Nettie is, with 20.1% against Gertie's 3.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gertie is used

Across 1910–2025, Gertie was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 20,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,846
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 5,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 9,091
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 9,091
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 10,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 10,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 11,111
  8. 8Mississippi1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gertie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gertie around the world

Where Gertie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1960–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gertie

People whose public names include Gertie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gertie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gertie. Linked forms have their own page here.

GerteGertyGertje

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gertie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#205
1882
Peak year
1918
220 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
8,532
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gertie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DottieLettieGermaineKattieBertieJettieScottieGerryGerriGeraldGeralynPattieHettieBettieMittieGerthaGeriLottieNettieGerrieMyrtieMartieKristieEttie

Names with a curve like Gertie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gertie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LinnieDovieMittieCecilVestaBlanchAlphaOmaFloyOrphaGussieLura

Sibling names for Gertie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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