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Trude

Girls' name

Spear + strength, through Gertrude

Trude has been given to 272 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1957, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Trude, 1974

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trude: meaning, origin, and history

Spear + strength, through Gertrude

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trude means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Trude is used in German and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gertrude and Gjertrud.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Trude between 1940 and 1974. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,526 in 1947.

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 Trude?

Trude had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1974, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1974
1 in 608,000
5 of 3,039,803 births
Among girls only
1 in 294,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1974
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,407 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trude 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 1974 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 421,407 children born in 1974 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trude. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trudes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trude was born before 1956 — so the typical Trude is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
193
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1950s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Trude 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (19)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,526
1947

Spellings of Trude

Trude is not the most common spelling — Maude is, with 48.2% against Trude's 0.29%.

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 Trude is used

Across 1910–2025, Trude was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,178,436 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 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. Trude has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trude around the world

Where Trude 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2005
    #525
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #647
    in 1962

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trude 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
#2,526
1947
Peak year
1957
19 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
1974
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trude

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

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Sibling names for Trude

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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