Gertruda

given name · Polish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gertruda is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Polish and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 508◐
  • PLPoland1 in 1.5K
  • CZCzechia1 in 4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈62K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
45 ●

1.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 508 ◐

Netherlands

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gertruda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#14034,025△159 rec.1 in 50834KGertruda28
PL Poland—24,831△1 rec.1 in 1.5K25K—1
CZ Czechia—2,6840 rec.1 in 4K2.7K—1
US United States—602612 rec.——Gertruda45
DE Germany—347311 rec.——Gertruda33
AU Australia—140133 rec.—1Gertruda26
GB United Kingdom—8483 rec.——Gertruda14
ZA South Africa—6968 rec.——Gertruda4
HR Croatia—59—1 in 72K59——
BE Belgium—5947 rec.—6Gertruda12
SE Sweden—500 rec.1 in 204K50—1
SI Slovenia—43—1 in 49K43——

Roughly 34K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 508). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Polish89K40%
  • Western Frisian44K20%
  • Dutch40K18%
  • English35K16%
  • Czech13K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish89,29340%
Western Frisian44,26520%
Dutch39,61318%
English34,90416%
Czech12,9916%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gertruda is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name103K records spelled Gertruda7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Gertrůda, Gertrūda, Gertrúda

  • Croatian given name664 records spelled Gertruda15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, United Kingdom, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Gertrude, Гертруда, Гертруде

  • Spanish given name337 records spelled Gertruda6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gertrūda, Gertrúda

  • French given name269 records spelled Gertruda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Gertrūda

  • a separate given name98 records spelled Gertruda2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands

    Also written Gertrūda

  • Russian given name79 records spelled Gertruda10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Гертруда, Gertrude, Geltrude, Гертруде

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Gertruda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Gertruda, wife of Andrei II. Before 1235.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020302000200520102015202029 · 1999

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Gertruda in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199929
200028
200127
200226
200324
200421
200521
200620
200719
200821
200921
201021
201121
201219
201319
201418
201519
201618
201717
201817
201915
202013

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Gertrude of Nivelles, b. 626Gertrude of Saxony, b. 1030Gertrude Bell, b. 1868Gertrude Stein, b. 1874Ma Rainey, b. 1886Gertrude Lawrence, b. 1898Gertrude Berg, b. 1899Gertrude Elion, b. 1918Elizabeth Anscombe, b. 1919Mark van Bommel, b. 1977
  • Gertrude of Nivellesb. 626BEnot in their usual nameBenedictine abbess and saint (626-659)
  • Gertrude of Saxonyb. 1030DEnot in their usual nameCountess of Holland and Countess of Flanders (1030–1113)
  • Gertrude Bellb. 1868GBnot in their usual nameBritish traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
  • Gertrude Steinb. 1874USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1874–1946)
  • Ma Raineyb. 1886USnot in their usual nameAmerican blues singer (1886–1939)
  • Gertrude Lawrenceb. 1898GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer (1898–1952)
  • Gertrude Bergb. 1899USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, screenwriter (1899-1966)
  • Gertrude Elionb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
  • Elizabeth Anscombeb. 1919GBnot in their usual nameBritish analytic philosopher
  • Mark van Bommelb. 1977NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Gertruda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—34K#40
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202625K#86
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11K#187
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—10K#391
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.8K#460
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2.7K#334
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—1.3K#375
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1.3K#371
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200870#716
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200968#731
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201066#752
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201365#792

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 73 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gertruda?
We estimate roughly 62 thousand people bear Gertruda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Gertruda have the most bearers?
We estimate about 34 thousand people bear Gertruda in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gertruda.
Where is Gertruda most common?
Gertruda is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 508 people carrying it.
How common is Gertruda compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Gertruda is the 140th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Gertruda a male or female name?
Gertruda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gertruda” — the 140th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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