Gertrudes

Girls' name

English equivalent of Gertrude

Gertrudes has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1914, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Gertrudes, 1914

1 in 236,000

Gertrudes over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gertrudes: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Gertrude

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gertrudes means

Gertrudes is a English equivalent of Gertrude.

Origin, language, and formation

Gertrudes is used in Cebuano and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gertrude.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Gertrudes is pronounced /ʒeʁˈtɾu.d͡ʒis/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Gertrudes between 1914 and 1914. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1914; its best national rank was #3,345 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Gertrudes?

Gertrudes had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1914, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1914: 1 in 236,000; 6 of 1,416,309 births
Among girls only: 1 in 127,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1914: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 163,620 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gertrudes 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 1914 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 163,620 children born in 1914 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gertrudes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gertrudess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gertrudes was born before 1914 — so the typical Gertrudes is around 111 today.

Median birth year: 1914; About 111 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Gertrudes 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1914 (6)
Years since peak: 111; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #3,345; 1914

Spellings of Gertrudes

Gertrudes is not the most common spelling — Gertrude is, with 100.0% against Gertrudes's <0.01%.

Gertrude100.0%177,100
Gertrudes<0.01%6

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 Gertrudes is used

Across 1910–2025, Gertrudes was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in —

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. Gertrudes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gertrudes 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,345; 1914
Peak year: 1914; 6 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1914
All-time count: 6
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gertrudes

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

Gerardina Germanii Gerladine Gerrilynn Geraleen Geronima Gerldean Gereline Geroline Geraldinne Geradette Geradine Gereldine Geraine Gertrudis Gervase Gerogia Gerolyn Gerlisa Gerniya Geraldeen Gerette Gerrika Geraldi

Sibling names for Gertrudes

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

For a sister

Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha Hettie

For a brother

Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis

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