Given name
Gertrudes
“one who is strong with a spear”
Gertrudes is a variant of Gertrude. One German interpretation is “one who is strong with a spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gertrudes is a variant of Gertrude. One German interpretation is “one who is strong with a spear.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Gertrudes is a variant of Gertrude. An origin associated with Gertrude is Germanic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Gertrudes is a variant of Gertrude. The history of Gertrude gives this family its wider story. Gertrude was in use during the 19th century.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Gertrudes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1914. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 471 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gertrudes’s family of names
Gertrudes shares a linguistic root with Gertrude. In Portuguese usage, Gertrudes has a conventional equivalent in the Basque form Gertrudis. Gertrudes has a related form in Gertrude.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gertrudes has relatives in 23 languages.
20 related names in 23 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 26
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Trudyequivalent
- GertrudGerman, Swedish
- Gertaequivalent
- GertrudisSpanish, Basque
- Gertyequivalent
- Gescheequivalent
- GertrudaPolish, Czech
- Gertiequivalent
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