Trudie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name, variant spelling of Trudy, a pet form of Gertrude
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: ECN Government Gazette 8791, 2025
/ˈtɹudi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trudie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 47K
- USUnited States1 in 208K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name, variant spelling of Trudy, a pet form of Gertrude.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Trudie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Trudie | 41 |
| US United States | 1,602 | 1 in 208K | 1.6K | Trudie | 250 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 4 | Trudie | 132 |
| AU Australia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 4 | Trudie | 97 |
| EG Egypt | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Trudie | 2 |
| NA Namibia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 12 | Trudie | 37 |
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); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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)Trudie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Fiel
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Trudie Broosb. 1942NLDutch visual artist
- Trudie Kibbe Reedb. 1947USAmerican academic administrators
- Trudie Taljaardb. 1948ZASouth African actress
- Trudie Goodwinb. 1951GBEnglish actress
- Trudie Stylerb. 1954GBBritish actress and producer
- Trudie ChalderGBresearcher
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,886 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 69 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 68 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1958 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1944 | 63 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 58 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 57 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1945 | 56 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1957 | 55 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trudie mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name, variant spelling of Trudy, a pet form of Gertrude. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Trudie?
- In the etymology graph, Trudy, Trudi and Gertie are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Gertrude and Gertruida.
- How do you pronounce Trudie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɹudi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Trudie a male or female name?
- Trudie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Trudie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Trudie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trudie.
- How common is the name Trudie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,602 people named Trudie in 2020, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trudieThe 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, “Trudie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.