Trudi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: German (especially Swiss) pet form of the various girls’ names ending in -trud(e), from Germanic prip ‘strength’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɹudi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trudi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 28K
- CACanada≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
3,034 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German (especially Swiss) pet form of the various girls’ names ending in -trud(e), from Germanic prip ‘strength’. Variants: Trudie, Trudy.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trudi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,034 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Trudi | 306 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 3 | Trudi | 159 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 4 | Trudi | 141 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 1 | Trudi | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Trudi | 96 |
| CH Switzerland | #801 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Trudi | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | #840 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 11 | Trudi | 64 |
3,034 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
Trudi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
German (esp. Swiss): pet form of the various female names ending in - trud ; see, for example, GERTRUDE and ERMINTRUDE . It is now also used to some extent in the English-speaking world, under the influence of the many other female names now spelled with a final - i .
as a word
In Latin, present passive infinitive of trūdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, to impose, to obtrude
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Trudi Schoopb. 1903CHcomedian dancer and therapist (1903-1999)
- Trudi Birgerb. 1927DEGerman writer
- Trudi Rothb. 1930CHSwiss actress (1930-2016)
- Trudi Schmidtb. 1935DEGerman politician
- Trudi Gudab. 1940SRSurinamese poet & anthropologist
- Trudi Amesb. 1946USAmerican actress
- Gertrud M. Schüpbachb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican geneticist
- Trudi Canavanb. 1969AUAustralian writer
- Trudi Musgraveb. 1977AUAustralian female tennis player
- Trudi Jo Marie KeckUSAmerican film editor
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,594 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1965 | 140 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1966 | 129 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 116 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1963 | 112 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 109 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1960 | 107 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 105 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 104 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 104 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 103 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 102 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Trudi come from?
- German (especially Swiss) pet form of the various girls’ names ending in -trud(e), from Germanic prip ‘strength’. Variants: Trudie, Trudy. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Trudi?
- In the etymology graph, Trudy, Trudie and Gertie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gertrude and Gertrud.
- How do you pronounce Trudi?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹudi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Trudi a male or female name?
- Trudi 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.
- What does the name Trudi mean?
- Recorded meaning: German (especially Swiss) pet form of the various girls’ names ending in -trud(e), from Germanic prip ‘strength’.
- In which country does Trudi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Trudi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trudi.
- How common is the name Trudi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,034 people named Trudi in 2020, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Trudi compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Trudi is the 801st most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trudiThe 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, “Trudi” — the 801st most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.