Entry № 3582 · Italian origin

Geltrude Geltrude — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jel-TROO-deh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Spear-strength (Italian Gertrude)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "spear-strength (italian gertrude)".

Geltrude is the Italian form of Gertrude — Old German ger (spear) and trud (strength), "spear-strength." Saint Gertrude the Great (1256-1302) was the German Cistercian mystic.

Suor Gertrude appears in Manzoni's The Betrothed (1827).

Spear-strength. Saint Gertrude the Great.

The name in its native script.

Geltrude
Transliteration
Geltrude
Pronunciation
/ dʒɛlˈtruː.dɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

What Geltrude is built from.

Geltrude is a compound name. Its parts are þrúðr — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

þrúðr
Germanic
“strength”

Where Geltrude stands.

Geltrude does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Geltrudes before her.

Real people
Saint Gertrude the Great
German Cistercian mystic.
1256 – 1302
In fiction
Suor Geltrude
Character in Manzoni's The Betrothed.
1827 novel

Names connected to Geltrude.

The number behind Geltrude.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Geltrude reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.