Getrude
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Getrude is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Malawi it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swahili and English, written in the Latin script.
- ZMZambia1 in 602◐
- KEKenya1 in 2.3K
- TZTanzania1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈250 ●
- Sources
- 56 ●
- 1 in 540K ◐
across 5 countries
5.7K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | #283 | 12,743 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Getrude | 35 |
| ZM Zambia | #69 | 3,531 | 56 rec. | — | 3 | Getrude | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,002 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Getrude | 29 |
| TZ Tanzania | #600 | 1,326 | 983 rec. | — | — | Getrude | 25 |
| MW Malawi | #37 | 830 | 1 rec. | — | — | Getrude | 13 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 275 | 468 rec. | — | — | Getrude | 19 |
| GH Ghana | #572 | 195 | 119 rec. | — | — | Getrude | 17 |
| US United States | — | 160 | 191 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 160 | Getrude | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 124 | 29 rec. | — | — | Getrude | 28 |
| UG Uganda | #226 | 89 | 37 rec. | — | 3 | Getrude | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 42 | — | 1 in 5M | 42 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 32△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 540K | 32 | — | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili21K73%
- English4.3K15%
- Portuguese3961%
- English (South Africa)3481%
- French2641%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 20,965 | 73% |
| English | 4,327 | 15% |
| Portuguese | 396 | 1% |
| English (South Africa) | 348 | 1% |
| French | 264 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Getrude Musuruve InimahKEKenyan politician
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 160 | #43,791 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #74,979 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #131,575 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 32 | #11,068 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #27,127 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,557 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #31,787 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 6 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 45 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Getrude?
- We estimate roughly 250 people bear Getrude (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Getrude have the most bearers?
- Getrude is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled getrude.
- How common is Getrude compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Getrude is the 283rd most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
- Is Getrude a male or female name?
- Getrude 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Getrude” — the 283rd most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.