Entry № 3703 · Norwegian origin

Gjertrud Gjertrud — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Norwegian
Meaning
"A strong spear"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a strong spear".

Gjertrud is a name of Norwegian origin, meaning a strong spear.

A strong spear — a Norwegian name.

The name in its native script.

Gjertrud
Transliteration
Gjertrud
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gjertrud is built from.

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

þrúðr
Germanic
“strength”

Where Gjertrud stands.

Gjertrud 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.

Gjertruds before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gjertrud.

The number behind Gjertrud.

4

The Builder

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