Gertrudes
Meaning
spear strength (Portuguese form of the German Gertrude); kept by older colonist families
Popularity, 1890–2024
Gertrudes does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
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Popularity in Brazil
3,991 people · the #3,202 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 50,000 · median age 70
Among people named Gertrudes living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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