Name Gertrude - meaning, origin, numerology

Gertrude (also spelt Gertrud) is a female given name which is derived from Germanic roots that meant "spear" and "strength". "Trudi", originally a diminutive of "Gertrude", has developed into a name in its own right.

For a list of fictional characters and people known by only one name, see Gertrude (disambiguation)

"Gartred" is a rare variation (attested in Daphne du Maurier's novel The King's General, taking place in 17th Century Cornwall) (see [1], [2]).

See Names in Russian Empire, Soviet Union and CIS countries for a curiosity with this name.

People with this name include:

• Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), American painter based in Chicago
• Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942), Swedish suffragist
• Gertrude Alderfer [Gert] (born 1931), former first basewoman and catcher
• Gertrude Appleyard (1865–1917), British archer
• Gertrude Aretz née Kuntze-Dolton (1889–1938), German historian and publisher
• Lillian Gertrud Asplund (1906–2006), last survivor remembering the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912
• Gertrude Astor (1887–1977), American motion picture character actress
• Gertrude Atherton (1857–1948), American writer
• Gertrud Bacher (born 1971), retired Italian heptathlete
• Gertrude Baines (1894–2009), the world's oldest living person from 2 January 2009 until 11 September 2009
• Gertrude Bambrick (1897–1974), American actress of the silent era
• Gertrude Baniszewski (1929–1990), tortured Sylvia Likens to death in Indiana, USA in the 1960s
• Gertrud Barkhorn, fictional character from the anime/manga series Strike Witches
• Gertrud Bäumer (1873–1954), German politician and Feminist
• Gertrude Bell, CBE (1868–1926), archaeologist and spy
• Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948), writer of fantasy and science fiction in the U.S.
• Gertrude Berg (1894–1966), American actress and screenwriter
• Gertrude Bernard, also known as Anahareo, (1906–1986), Mohawk woman and companion of Grey Owl
• Gertrud Bing (1892–1964), scholar and Director of the Warburg Institute
• Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician
• Gertrude Bloede (born 1845), United States poet
• Gertrude Blom (1901–1993), Swiss journalist, social anthropologist and documentary photographer
• Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857–1911), Irish-born journalist, author, playwright, and editor
• Gertrude Bonnin or Zitkala-Sa (1876–1938), Sioux writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist
• Gertrude Bryan (1888–1976), stage actress on Broadway
• Gertrude Caton–Thompson (1888–1985), English archaeologist
• Gertrude Chataway (1866–1951), child-friend of author Lewis Carroll
• Gertrude Claire (1852–1928), actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent films
• Gertrude Colburn (died 1968), American dancer and sculptor
• Gertrude Cosgrove (1882–1962), the wife of Sir Robert Cosgrove, twice elected as Premier of Tasmania
• Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter, a lady at the court of Henry VIII of England
• Gertrude Crain (1911–1996), American publishing executive
• Gertrude Crampton (1909–1996), author of children's books
• Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman, GBE (1884–1954), British woman active in women's rights issues
• Gertrud Hedwig Anna Dohm or Hedwig Pringsheim (1855–1942), German actress
• Gertrude Walton Donahey (1908–2004), politician
• Gertrude Dunn (1933–2004), American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist
• Gertrude Elles MBE (1872–1960), British geologist, known for her work on graptolites
• Gertrud Fridh (1921–1984), Swedish stage and film actress
• Gertrude Gabl (1948–1976), alpine skier from Austria
• Gertrude Gadwall, fictional character
• Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, German scientist
• Gertrude Himmelfarb (born 1922), also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian
• Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), gardener
• Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen or Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), English actress, singer and musical comedy performer
• Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová, Czech three-time table tennis world champion
• Gertrud Kolmar (1894–1943), German lyric poet and writer
• Gertrud Kraus (born 1901), pioneer of modern dance in Israel
• Gertrude Lawrence (1898–1952), one of the most influential American photographers of the early 20th century
• Gertrud Luckner (1900–1995), Christian resister against Nazism
• Gertrud Månsson, Swedish politician, first woman in the Stockholm city council.
• Gertrud Elisabeth Mara [née Schmeling] (1749–1833), German operatic soprano
• Sarah Gertrude Millin
• Gertrude Mongella, ambassador from Tanzania
• Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980), preacher, and missionary
• Gertrude Neumark, American physicist
• Gertrude Clare Owens, (1887–1963), Superior General of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
• Gertrud Paetsch (born 1910), German ethnolog and philolog in the area of Cartvelology
• Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (1897–1991), Swedish mezzosoprano
• Gertrude Pridgett Rainey
• Gertrud Rask (1673–1735), the first wife of the Danish-Norwegian missionary to Greenland Hans Egede
• Gertrud Rittmann (1908–2005), German composer and music arranger who lived and worked in the United States
• Gertrud Schoenberg (1898–1967), the second wife of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999), fervent Nazi Party (NSDAP) member in Nazi Germany
• Gertrud Schüpbach Swiss-American molecular biologist
• Gertrud Skomagers (died 1556), Danish alleged witch
• Gertrud Stefanek (born 1959), Hungarian fencer
• Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), writer
• Gertrud Szabolcsi (1923–1993), biochemist
• Gertrude Vachon, American professional wrestler.
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American author, mainly of children's stories
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, art patron and collector
• Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890–1979), American author, mainly of children's stories
• Gertrude Weil (1879–1971), American involved in women's suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights
• Gertrud Wolle (1891–1952), German film actress
• Gertrud Margarete Zelle (1876–1917), aka Mata Hari, Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy executed by firing squad

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English, Dutch, and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gār, gēr spear + þrūþ strength. The name does not appear in England immediately after the Conquest, but only in the later Middle English period: it is probable that it was introduced by migrants from the Low Countries, who came to England in connection with the cloth trade. It was popular in the 19th century, at the time of the revival of many Germanic names, but has now fallen from favour again. In Germany, usually in the form Gertrud, it was much more popular than it ever was in England. It was the name of two famous 13th-century nuns of the Cistercian abbey of Helfta near Eisleben, whose spiritual writings had a great influence.
Variants: German: Gertrud; Gertraud; Gertraut (by association with the element traut dear, beloved). Dutch: Ge(e)rtruida.
Cognates: Spanish: Gertrudis. Portuguese: Gertrudes. Low German, Dutch: Geerta.
Finnish: Kerttu.
Short form: English: Gert.
Pet forms: English: Gertie. German: Gerda, Gerdi, Trude, Trudi. Dutch: Geertke, Geertje. Low German, Frisian: Gesa.

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