Gertie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Gertie

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,532 babies named Gertie between 1880 and 2022, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gertie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 220 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gertie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,745 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Gertie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 751 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Gertie in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gertie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 8,532 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.