Gertie
Gertie was last recorded in 2022, when 9 babies were given it; 8,532 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Gertie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 71 and 86.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gertie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gertie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gertie is “a diminutive of the female given name Gertrude.”
Diminutive + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gertie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,650, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
220 babies in 1918, the peak
Gertie peaked in 1918, when 220 girls were given it, #448 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9 | #10,650 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,369 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,777 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,584 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,093 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,960 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,276 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | #7,145 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,706 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,447 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,422 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,702 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,039 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,277 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,747 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,509 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 44 | #1,422 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,461 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 64 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 74 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 73 | #909 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 79 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1941 | 75 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 102 | #687 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 85 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 95 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1937 | 79 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 96 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1935 | 115 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 108 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 106 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1932 | 117 | #609 | 0.11 |
| 1931 | 134 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1930 | 147 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1929 | 122 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1928 | 134 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1927 | 127 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1926 | 148 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1925 | 177 | #536 | 0.15 |
| 1924 | 146 | #622 | 0.12 |
| 1923 | 148 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 178 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1921 | 190 | #515 | 0.15 |
| 1920 | 181 | #526 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 217 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 220 | #448 | 0.19 |
| 1917 | 202 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1916 | 192 | #461 | 0.18 |
| 1915 | 206 | #423 | 0.21 |
| 1914 | 175 | #398 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 148 | #404 | 0.24 |
| 1912 | 134 | #397 | 0.24 |
| 1911 | 120 | #368 | 0.29 |
| 1910 | 131 | #345 | 0.33 |
| 1909 | 101 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1908 | 108 | #340 | 0.32 |
| 1907 | 124 | #312 | 0.39 |
| 1906 | 110 | #319 | 0.37 |
| 1905 | 115 | #314 | 0.39 |
| 1904 | 106 | #315 | 0.38 |
| 1903 | 85 | #342 | 0.32 |
| 1902 | 140 | #263 | 0.53 |
| 1901 | 109 | #286 | 0.46 |
| 1900 | 117 | #303 | 0.39 |
| 1899 | 102 | #292 | 0.44 |
| 1898 | 115 | #284 | 0.44 |
| 1897 | 98 | #288 | 0.42 |
| 1896 | 119 | #263 | 0.50 |
| 1895 | 136 | #236 | 0.58 |
| 1894 | 128 | #234 | 0.57 |
| 1893 | 102 | #266 | 0.48 |
| 1892 | 128 | #228 | 0.60 |
| 1891 | 94 | #251 | 0.51 |
| 1890 | 121 | #220 | 0.64 |
| 1889 | 106 | #225 | 0.59 |
| 1888 | 91 | #244 | 0.51 |
| 1887 | 95 | #212 | 0.65 |
| 1886 | 81 | #226 | 0.56 |
| 1885 | 87 | #205 | 0.65 |
| 1884 | 65 | #237 | 0.50 |
| 1883 | 51 | #253 | 0.45 |
| 1882 | 65 | #205 | 0.60 |
| 1881 | 35 | #274 | 0.38 |
| 1880 | 34 | #266 | 0.37 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gertie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gertie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gertie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gertie, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 12% of the 8,532 Americans ever recorded as Gertie. The median Gertie alive today is 79 years old; half are between 71 and 86.
The 2020 Census counted 1,266 people named Gertie (1,263 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,496 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 464 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 450 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 57 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 25 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gertie born?
The states with the most babies named Gertie are Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 751 | not ranked | 6.2× |
| Texas | 483 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 460 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Tennessee | 360 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Arkansas | 345 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Kentucky | 323 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Alabama | 270 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 254 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Virginia | 185 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Oklahoma | 162 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Gertie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gertie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 6.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gertie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gertie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gertie and names like it
- Compare Gertie and BessieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sGertie peaked in 1918.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gertie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Gertie.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Gertie alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with GMost given first.