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Comments and insights on the name Gertrude: | Edit

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww!! Hate this name! But I guess it is kinda cute! Especially Gertie. x

Personal experiences with the name Gertrude: | Edit

Most of my life I have used Trudy -- Gertrude is considered an old maiden's name in the USA.

Nicknames for Gertrude: | Edit

Gert, Gertie, Trudy, Trude, Rudy, Rude

Meanings and history of the name Gertrude: | Edit

From Old High German, meaning "strong spear".

Famous real-life people named Gertrude: | Edit

Gertrude Stein, American writer
Gertrude Lawrence, English actress and musical comedy performer
Gertrude Vachon, retired Canadian professional wrestler
Gertrude Bell, British writer, traveller, political analyst, Arabian administrator and archaeologist.
Gertrude Berg, American actress and screenwriter
Gertrude Hohenburg, first Queen consort of Rudolph I of Germany
Gertrude of Meran, first wife of Andrew II, king of Hungary and mother of St. Elisabeth of Hungary
Gertrude Chandler Warner, author of "The Boxcar" series of children's books.
Gennifer Flowers, one-time mistress of Bill Clinton, has the full name Gertrude Gennifer Flowers.
Gertrude Baniszewski, an Indiana divorcee who murdered Sylvia Likens, a teenage girl she took into her charge in the the mid-1960s.

Gertrude in song, story & screen: | Edit

Hamlet's mother, Queen of Denmark
Gertie - Drew Barrymore's character in E.T.