Gertrude


Gender:
Origin: German
315 famous people named Gertrude found on Wikipedia.
176879 female, 568 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 5486-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 22-th in year 1906
Used in: Dutch, English

Meanings

A female given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “strength.”.

Gertrude (also spelled Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudy", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude," has developed into a name in its own right.
"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in Daphne du Maurier's novel The King's General, set in 17th Century Cornwall

Fem. proper name, from French, from Old High German Geretrudis, from ger "spear" (see gar) + trut "beloved, dear."

Strength of the spear, spear maiden. Combine of ger (spear) and trudr (strong), means: strong spear, boar spear.

Famous People: 315 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Gertrude Stein 1874 American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
2 Gertrude Bell 1868 English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy
3 Gertrude Baniszewski 1929 American murderer
4 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1875 American sculptor
5 Gertrude Lawrence 1898 Actress, singer
6 Gertrude Weaver 1898 Supercentenarian
7 Gertrude Ederle 1905 American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder
8 Gertrude B. Elion 1918 American biochemist and pharmacologist
9 Gertrude the Great 1256 German Cistercian, mystic, and theologian
10 Gertrude Yorkes
11 Gertrude Jekyll 1843 Garden designer, artist
12 Gertrude of Nivelles 0626 Benedictine abbess
13 Gertrude Himmelfarb 1922 American historian
14 Gertrude Berg 1899 Actress, screenwriter
15 Gertrude Elizabeth Blood 1857 Irish writer
16 Gertrude Käsebier 1852 American photographer
17 Gertrude Chandler Warner 1890 American children's writer
18 Gertrude Sizakele Khumalo
19 Gertrude Janeway 1909 Last widow of a Union soldier.
20 Gertrude Lintz American animal trainer
21 Gertrude Baines 1894 American supercentenarian, oldest living person in the world
22 Gertrude Astor 1887 Actress
23 Gertrude Atherton 1857 Novelist, short story writer
24 Gertrude Abercrombie 1909 American painter
25 Gertrude of Merania 1185 Queen consort of Hungary
26 Gertrude Barrows Bennett 1883 American writer
27 Gertrude Michael 1911 American actress
28 Gertrude of Saxony 1033 Countess consort of Holland and later Countess consort of Flanders
29 Gertrude Mary Cox 1900 American statistician
30 Gertrude Sanford Legendre 1902 American spy
31 Gertrude W. Hoffmann 1871 Character Actress
32 Gertrude Olmstead 1897 Actress
33 Gertrude Maseko 1960 Malawian politician and First Lady
34 Gertrude Jeannette 1914 American actress and activist
35 Gertrude Flynn 1909 Theatre and Film actor
36 Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman 1884 Wife of Australian Governor-General
37 Gertrude Morgan 1900 American musician, artist and preacher
38 Gertrude of Süpplingenburg 1115 Margravine consort of Austria and Tuscany and Duchess consort of Saxony and Bavaria
39 Gertrude Mongella 1945 Tanzanian politician
40 Gertrude of Bavaria 1152 Wueen of Denmark
41 Gertrude Caton-Thompson 1888 British archaeologist
42 Gertrude Poe 1915 American former journalist, lawyer, real estate agent, insurance agent, and radio broadcaster
43 Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine 1070 Duchess of Lorraine
44 Gertrude Niesen 1911 American torch singer, actress, comedian and songwriter
45 Gertrude Blanch 1897 Mathematician
46 Gertrude Kelly 1862 Irish-American surgeon and social activist
47 Gertrude Brinek 1952 Austrian politician
48 Gertrude of Poland 1025 Polish princess and astrologer
49 Gertrude Chataway 1866 Friend of Lewis Carroll
50 Gertrude Degenhardt 1940 German lithographer and illustrator
51 Gertrude Short 1902 Actress
52 Gertrude Hermes 1901 English wood engraver, print maker and sculptor
53 Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo 1837 American heiress
54 Gertrude of Brunswick 1060 German noble
55 Gertrude Claire 1852 Actress
56 Gertrude Blom 1901 Swiss Mesoamericanists
57 Gertrude Buck 1871 American rhetorician
58 Gertrude Aubauer 1951 Austrian television presenter, news presenter and politician
59 Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter At the court of Henry VIII of England, godmother to the future Elizabeth I
60 Gertrude Kleinová 1918 Czechoslovak table tennis player
61 Gertrude of Austria 1226 Austrian noble
62 Gertrude Messinger 1911 American actress
63 Gertrude Bambrick 1897 Silent film actress
64 Gertrude Reum 1926
65 Gertrude Harding 1889 Canadian activist
66 Gertrude of Sulzbach 1114 German Queen
67 Gertrude of Dagsburg 1190 French duchess and trouvere
68 Gertrude Warner 1917 American actress
69 Gertrude Hull 1866 Teacher of history for over 40 years at the Milwaukee school system
70 Gertrude Rush 1880 American lawyer
71 Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber 1911 Nuclear physicist
72 Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia 1120 Czech princess
73 Gertrude Guillaume-Schack 1845
74 Gertrude H. Hoffman 1885 American dancer
75 Gertrude McCoy 1890 Actress
76 Gertrude Foster Brown 1867 American concert pianist, teacher, and suffragette
77 Gertrude Sandmann 1893 German painter
78 Gertrude van den Bergh 1793 Composer
79 Gertrude of Hackeborn 1232 Cistercian abbess
80 Gertrude Stubbs
81 Gertrude Robinson 1890 American silent film actress
82 Gertrude of Flanders, Countess of Savoy 1112 Countess Consort of Savoy
83 Gertrude of Comburg 1095 Queen consort of Germany, consort of Conrad III of Germany
84 Gertrude Dunn 1933 American baseball player
85 Gertrude Welcker 1896 German actress
86 Gertrude Crampton 1909 American writer
87 Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell 1952 Austrian economist, former board member of the ECB
88 Gertrude Thanhouser 1882 American actress
89 Gertrude Howard 1892 American actress
90 Gertrude Kerbis 1926 American architect
91 Gertrude of Baden Princess of Baden by birth and by marriage Countess of Dagsburg
92 Gertrude Grob-Prandl 1917 Austrian singer
93 Gertrude Johnson 1894 Singer
94 Gertrude Prokosch Kurath 1903 American dance historian
95 Gertrude Page 1872 Anglo-Rhodesian novelist
96 Gertrude I. Johnson American educator
97 Gertrude Weil 1879 American suffragist
98 Gertrude Pitzinger 1904 German opera singer (1904-1997)
99 Gertrude Kingston 1862 British actress
100 Gertrude Van Wagenen 1893 American scientist
101 Gertrude Rand 1886 US research scientist
102 Gertrude Walton Donahey 1908 American politician of the Democratic party who served as Ohio State Treasurer
103 Gertrude Abbott 1846 Australian midwife
104 Gertrude Maud Robinson 1896 British chemist
105 Gertrude Bryan 1888 American actress
106 Gertrude Greene 1904 American sculptor and painter
107 Gertrude Seinin
108 Trudy Van Tubb Animal cartoon character, female partner of Pete
109 Gertrude Neumark 1927 American physicist
110 Gertrude Emerson Sen 1893 American academic
111 Gertrude Leverkus 1899 German born English architect
112 Gertrude T. Widener 1897 American racehorse owner
113 Gertrude Rogallo Invernot of the Rogallo wing
114 Gertrude Poppert 1914
115 Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff 1953 German academic and judge
116 Gertrude Bacon 1874 Writer, Aeronaut, Botanist
117 Gertrude E. Jennings 1877 British writer
118 Gertrude of Hohenburg 1225 German queen
119 Gertrud of Hamage
120 Gertrude Hiscox 1910 British Nazi collaborator
121 Gertrude Alderfer 1931 Baseball player
122 Gertrude van der Oosten Dutch mystic
123 Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann 1942 German specialist in literature
124 Gertrude Bugler 1897
125 Gertrude Comfort Morrow 1888
126 Gertrude of Aldenberg 1227 Premonstratensian canoness
127 Gertrude Wilhelmsen 1913 American discus thrower, javelin thrower and softball player
128 Gertrude Pritzi 1920 Austrian table tennis player
129 Gertrude Noone 1898 American supercentenarian
130 Gertrude More 1606 Nun
131 Gertrude Bustill Mossell 1855 Journalist
132 Gertrude Robinson Smith 1881
133 Gertrude Crain 1911 American publisher
134 Gertrude Pangalile Rwakatare Tanzanian politician
135 Gertrude Kolar 1926 Former artistic gymnast
136 Gertrude Martin 1911 British artist
137 Gertrude Dills McKee 1885
138 Gertrude Elles 1872 British geologist
139 Gertrude Simmons Burlingham 1872 Early 20th-century American mycologist
140 Gertrude Lightstone Mittelmann 1907 America pianist and radio host
141 Gertrude Lemmens 1914 Dutch missionary
142 Gertrude Wondrack 1920 Austrian politician
143 Gertrude de Nesle-Soissons 1185
144 Gertrude Spencer-Stanhope 1857 British artist
145 Gertrude Herzfeld 1890 British doctor
146 Gertrude Appleyard 1865 British archer
147 Gertrude Friedberg 1908 American writer
148 Gertrude Crotty Davenport 1866 American biologist
149 Gertrude Tennant 1819 Irish society hostess
150 Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner 1926 Austrian politician
151 Gertrude Spurr Cutts 1858 Canadian artist
152 Gertrude Ganote 1920 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
153 Gertrude Hartland 1865 Irish artist
154 Gertrude Le Brandt 1863 American actress
155 Gertrude Clare Owens 1887 Administrator and Catholic leader from the USA
156 Gertrude Farquharson Boyle Kanno 1878 American artist
157 Gertrude Sawyer 1895
158 Gertrude Harris Boatwright Claytor 1888 American writer
159 Gertrude Krombholz 1933 German music educator
160 Gertrude Bloede 1845 American writer
161 Gertrude Clarke American educator
162 Gertrude Bleiberg 1921
163 Gertrude Samuels 1910 American journalist
164 Gertrude Tuckwell 1861 British trade unionist, social worker, author
165 Gertrude Aretz 1889 German historian and publisher
166 Gertrude Melville 1884 Australian politician
167 Gertrude Mary Woodward 1854 British scientific illustrator
168 Gertrude Liebhart 1928 Austrian sprint canoer
169 Gertrude Rachel Levy 1884 Writer
170 Gertrude Quastler 1909 American artist
171 Gertrude Wagner 1925
172 Gertrude Zeisler 1888
173 Gertrude Langer 1908
174 Gertrude Harrison 1871 Professional golfer
175 Gertrude Porsche-Schinkeová Luger
176 Gertrude Richardson 1875 Canadian feminist
177 Gertrude Kubiena 1938
178 Gertrude Meredith 1892 Figure skater
179 Gertrude Newsome-Jackson 1923
180 Gertrude Fiske 1879
181 Gertrude Nafe
182 Gertrude Selma Sober 1869 American geologist and mining company executive
183 Gertrude Sterroll British actress
184 Gertrude Tiemer American painter
185 Gertrude Parsons 1812 English novelist
186 Gertrude Polcar 1916 American politician
187 Gertrude Woodcock Seibert 1864 American writer (1864-1928)
188 Gertrude Cosgrove 1882
189 Gertrude Falkenstein 1803
190 Gertrude Aston Thimelby 1617 English writer
191 Gertrude Fehr 1895 German photographer
192 Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa 1952 Ugandan librarian
193 Gertrude Schalk
194 Gertrude Eaton 1861
195 Gertrude Colburn 1886 American sculptor
196 Gertrude Sanborn 1881 American writer
197 Gertrude Baumstark 1941 Romanian chess player
198 Gertrude Kuh 1893 American landscape architect
199 Gertrude Vakar 1904 Russian translator
200 Gertrude Kahn American spy for the Soviet Union