Gertie

Where Gertie comes from

Diminutive + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gertie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Gertie Millar born
    British actor and singer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #265 among girls — 34 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1885
    Peak, #204
    87 babies named Gertie — more than any year before or since.
  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.