Gertha
Gertha is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 779th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192158 births
- Best rank
- #779in 1883
- Since 1883
- 1,792people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,792 girls have been named Gertha in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 58 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 58 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1921, its biggest year
Gertha was the 975th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Gertha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vergiepeak 1919
- Vernapeak 1918
- Onniepeak 1922
- Corinepeak 1920
- Zelmapeak 1919
- Albertapeak 1919
- Berylpeak 1920
- Birthapeak 1926
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.