Entry № 3617 · German origin

Gertrudis Gertrudis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"The strength of a spear"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

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

Gertrudis 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.

Gertrudis
Transliteration
Gertrudis
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gertrudis is built from.

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

dís
Old Norse
“goddess, lady”

Where Gertrudis stands.

Gertrudis 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.

Gertrudiss before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gertrudis.

The number behind Gertrudis.

4

The Builder

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