Gertruda
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɡɛrtruda/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Gertruda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 37,801 people, counted by the Meertens NVB, which ranks it 40th.
- NLNetherlands1 in 457(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.4K
- CZCzechia1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
37,801 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gertruda
- Polish:/ɡɛrtruda/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/ɣərtryda/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gertruda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 37,801 | 1 in 457 | 34K | Gertruda | 33 |
| PL Poland | 11,284 | 1 in 3.4K | 11K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 2,684 | 1 in 4K | 2.7K | — | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Gertruda | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Gertruda | 33 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 43 | 1 in 49K | 43 | — | — |
37,801 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gertrude Steinb. 1874USnot in their usual nameAmerican author (1874–1946)
- Gertrude Elionb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
- 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Gertruda?
- In the etymology graph, Gertrude, Gertrud and Gertrudis are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gertruda?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ɡɛrtruda/; in Dutch /ɣərtryda/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Gertruda a male or female name?
- Gertruda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- Which countries have the most people named Gertruda?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Gertruda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gertruda. After it come Poland, Czechia, Tanzania and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gertruda most common?
- Gertruda is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 457 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gertruda?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 37,801 people named Gertruda, about 1 in 457 residents.
What do you want to know about Gertruda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gertrudaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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” — ranked 40th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.