Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Gertrude

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Gertrude
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.5% from peak

Peak era

1917

Peak rank proxy

6,300

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Greatest Generation

1880Peak 19172024

Peak year

1917

Decline from peak

99.5%

2024

All-time

177,083

Gertrude once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1917, when 6,300 girls were named Gertrude.

In 2024, only 29 girls were given the name.

Down 99.5% from its peak.

All told, about 177,083 Americans have been named Gertrude and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.5% from peak

19176,300 girls named Gertrude

202429 girls named Gertrude

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