Gertrude

Where Gertrude comes from

From Old French [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.
— Wiktionary's entry for Gertrude
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Gertrude through the years
  1. 1874
    Gertrude Stein born
    American author
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #25 among girls, with 787 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1906
    Peak, #22
    2,375 babies named Gertrude, its best rank.
  4. 1918
    Gertrude B. Elion born
    American biochemist and pharmacologist
  5. 1938
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #172.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Gertrude B. Elion · American biochemist and pharmacologist, 1918–1999
  • Gertrude Stein · American author, 1874–1946
  • Gertrude Bell · British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy, 1868–1926
  • Gertrude Ederle · American swimmer, 1905–2003
  • Gertrude Jekyll · Garden designer, artist, editor, 1843–1932

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.