girls:
8.5k births since 1880
#1764 (69th percentile)
overall:
8.5k births since 1880
#2928 (62nd percentile)
The name Gertie is the #2,928 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,532 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 62.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,764 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 8,532 births since 1880.
Gertie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Gertie is available in 103 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Gertie reached its peak popularity in 1894, achieving the 35.2% percentile (ranked #209) with 542 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 613 births per million (ranked 29.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gertie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gertie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Gertie is pronounced as GER-tee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-tee, at 32.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like G ER1 T IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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