Meaning not yet researched.
Gertrude: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #22 in 1906.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #22 in 1906; #6,632 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gertrude in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,632 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1906, at #22.
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Gertrude: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #22 in 1906 · most girls in one year: 6,300 (1917).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Gertrude, making it the 6,632nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,932 places from #4,700 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 29 girls named Gertrude in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #22, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 6,300, in 1917. For comparison, it was #5,186 in 2015 and #314 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gertrude in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 787 babies with the name. In all, 177,668 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 49,700 babies named Gertrude.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 292 US girls were named Gertrude; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Trudy (25,628 babies since 1880) and Trudi (3,215 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trude, Girtrude and Gertrud are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Gert, Gertie and Trudy.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trude (272), Girtrude (216), Gertrud (34), Gertrudis (28), Getrude (27), Gerta (17), Gertrudes (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Gertrude is listed as a nickname for Gertie, Trudy.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,632 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,700 | — | — |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,495 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,216 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,098 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,186 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,284 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,836 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,244 | — | — |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,225 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,312 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,849 | — | — |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,867 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,186 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,000 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,040 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,889 | — | — |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,731 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,056 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,625 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,298 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,390 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,941 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,236 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,164 | — | — |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,019 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,815 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,889 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,989 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,723 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,120 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,062 | — | — |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,466 | — | — |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,538 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,155 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,450 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,653 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,086 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,948 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,661 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 1973 | 55 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,636 | — | — |
| 1971 | 55 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1966 | 98 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1965 | 112 | #975 | — | — |
| 1964 | 153 | #841 | — | — |
| 1963 | 169 | #800 | — | — |
| 1962 | 152 | #856 | — | — |
| 1961 | 173 | #795 | — | — |
| 1960 | 211 | #702 | — | — |
| 1959 | 220 | #674 | — | — |
| 1958 | 243 | #630 | — | — |
| 1957 | 300 | #554 | — | — |
| 1956 | 340 | #509 | — | — |
| 1955 | 371 | #472 | — | — |
| 1954 | 393 | #444 | — | — |
| 1953 | 422 | #420 | — | — |
| 1952 | 476 | #379 | — | — |
| 1951 | 558 | #335 | — | — |
| 1950 | 613 | #314 | — | — |
| 1949 | 657 | #302 | 5 | #3,898 |
| 1948 | 651 | #301 | — | — |
| 1947 | 702 | #298 | — | — |
| 1946 | 639 | #290 | — | — |
| 1945 | 664 | #262 | — | — |
| 1944 | 813 | #232 | — | — |
| 1943 | 867 | #227 | 7 | #3,064 |
| 1942 | 932 | #215 | — | — |
| 1941 | 997 | #190 | — | — |
| 1940 | 1,014 | #186 | — | — |
| 1939 | 1,092 | #173 | 6 | #3,252 |
| 1938 | 1,167 | #172 | 12 | #2,120 |
| 1937 | 1,319 | #159 | 8 | #2,760 |
| 1936 | 1,316 | #156 | 9 | #2,514 |
| 1935 | 1,425 | #145 | 14 | #1,971 |
| 1934 | 1,582 | #135 | 6 | #3,440 |
| 1933 | 1,619 | #133 | 7 | #3,111 |
| 1932 | 1,968 | #124 | 13 | #2,136 |
| 1931 | 2,094 | #115 | 13 | #2,144 |
| 1930 | 2,555 | #96 | 13 | #2,224 |
| 1929 | 2,725 | #95 | 14 | #2,133 |
| 1928 | 3,011 | #86 | 12 | #2,439 |
| 1927 | 3,508 | #78 | 17 | #1,982 |
| 1926 | 3,852 | #71 | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1925 | 3,892 | #70 | 11 | #2,650 |
| 1924 | 4,543 | #60 | 17 | #1,989 |
| 1923 | 4,700 | #59 | 9 | #3,045 |
| 1922 | 5,082 | #48 | 13 | #2,390 |
| 1921 | 5,349 | #46 | 8 | #3,319 |
| 1920 | 5,797 | #42 | 17 | #1,990 |
| 1919 | 6,014 | #39 | 16 | #2,007 |
| 1918 | 6,264 | #39 | 14 | #2,204 |
| 1917 | 6,300 | #37 | 15 | #2,029 |
| 1916 | 6,243 | #35 | 16 | #1,883 |
| 1915 | 6,077 | #35 | 15 | #1,911 |
| 1914 | 4,938 | #32 | 11 | #2,020 |
| 1913 | 4,015 | #33 | 13 | #1,531 |
| 1912 | 3,887 | #30 | 14 | #1,299 |
| 1911 | 2,895 | #30 | 13 | #946 |
| 1910 | 2,932 | #26 | 8 | #1,248 |
| 1909 | 2,622 | #25 | — | — |
| 1908 | 2,562 | #25 | 13 | #763 |
| 1907 | 2,499 | #24 | 10 | #897 |
| 1906 | 2,375 | #22 | 9 | #876 |
| 1905 | 2,276 | #27 | 10 | #810 |
| 1904 | 2,269 | #25 | 6 | #1,123 |
| 1903 | 2,253 | #24 | 5 | #1,190 |
| 1902 | 2,207 | #27 | 10 | #767 |
| 1901 | 1,964 | #27 | 5 | #1,116 |
| 1900 | 2,580 | #23 | 8 | #996 |
| 1899 | 2,110 | #23 | 7 | #893 |
| 1898 | 2,302 | #24 | 14 | #587 |
| 1897 | 2,135 | #23 | 6 | #992 |
| 1896 | 2,221 | #23 | 6 | #1,034 |
| 1895 | 2,129 | #24 | 12 | #619 |
| 1894 | 1,908 | #25 | 10 | #692 |
| 1893 | 1,811 | #24 | — | — |
| 1892 | 1,924 | #23 | 7 | #892 |
| 1891 | 1,645 | #26 | 11 | #573 |
| 1890 | 1,713 | #26 | 9 | #692 |
| 1889 | 1,543 | #28 | 7 | #835 |
| 1888 | 1,468 | #28 | 5 | #1,093 |
| 1887 | 1,251 | #28 | — | — |
| 1886 | 1,249 | #27 | 7 | #793 |
| 1885 | 1,086 | #29 | 8 | #729 |
| 1884 | 1,063 | #28 | 5 | #1,034 |
| 1883 | 923 | #25 | — | — |
| 1882 | 939 | #26 | — | — |
| 1881 | 791 | #24 | — | — |
| 1880 | 787 | #25 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).