Where is Gertrude from?
My guess is...
Cameroon
24%
Ghana
17%
Austria
14%
I'm 94% certain Gertrude is Female.
According to a dataset of 1966, the average Gertrude is around 60 years old.
Learn about the name Gertrude
Meaning of the name Gertrude
Means "spear of strength", derived from the Germanic elements ger "spear" and thrud "strength". Saint Gertrude the Great was a 13th-century nun and mystic writer. It was probably introduced to England by settlers from the Low Countries in the 15th century. Shakespeare used the name in his play Hamlet (1600) for the mother of the title character. Another famous bearer was the American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).
How do we know this about Gertrude
(and is it secret spies?)
We use a combination of data from the internet, and our own Machine Learning models to make these predictions.
In a gist, we use a Machine Learning model trained on a diverse global dataset of 100m+ names, and use it to predict different traits for a person based on first name!
NameGuessr guesses a person's nationality, age, and gender based on their name. We also try to give insightful info around the name's origin, name meaning, and name pronounciation.