Gertrude is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Gertrude is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Gertrude. In the SmartGenius ranking, Gertrude is #4,442 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 119,312 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Gertrude. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Gertrude is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Gertrude for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Gertrude is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Gertrude is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 22 Gertrude easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1906.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gertrude was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 32 babies were named Gertrude in the USA in 2022, ranking it #3,867 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1998, when it was only ranked at #12,505 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 5 girls were named Gertrude.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Gertrude is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gertrude and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gertrude, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Rocket
Tiger
Rocket
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gertrude
Gertrude
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
E
R
T
R
U
D
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
E
R
T
R
U
D
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gertrude sounds like this:
