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Baby name
Gertrude
Girl
Origin of the name
Gertrude is of Germanic origin, made of words meaning “spear” and “strength”: “strong with the spear.”
Comeback name
177,100births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 37rank at its peak, in 1917
Where babies named Gertrude are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Gertrude is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Gertrude is most common in Maine (2 times), Rhode Island (2) and Massachusetts (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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