Gertie

Where Gertie comes from

Diminutive + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gertie
  • Vowel-ended
Gertie through the years
  1. 1879
    Gertie Millar born
    British actor and singer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #265 among girls, with 34 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #204
    87 babies named Gertie, its best rank.
  4. 1930
    Gertie Fröhlich born
    Austrian painter and graphic designer
  5. 1949
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,603.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Gertrude.
Namesakes
  • Gertie Millar · British actor and singer, 1879–1952
  • Gertie Fröhlich · Austrian painter and graphic designer, 1930–2020
  • Gertie Evenhuis · Dutch writer, 1927–2005

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.