Entry № 3614 · German origin

Gertraud Gertraud — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"The strength of a spear"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the strength of a spear".

Gertraud is a name of German origin, meaning the strength of a spear.

The strength of a spear — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Gertraud
Transliteration
Gertraud
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gertraud is built from.

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

gair
Germanic
“spear”
þrúðr
Germanic
“strength”

Where Gertraud stands.

Gertraud 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.

Gertrauds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gertraud.

The number behind Gertraud.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gertraud reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.