Girl
Trudy
As a girl's name, Trudy traces back to Germanic, where it is understood to mean "Germanic ger (spear) + trud (strength), spear strength". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1947.
EtymologyDiminutive of Gertrude
GermanicGermanic "ger" (spear) + "trud" (strength) – "spear strength"
Births by decade
1900s
64
1910s
230
1920s
367
1930s
756
1940s
6,201
1950s
8,345
1960s
5,922
1970s
2,201
1980s
664
1990s
291
2000s
204
2010s
163
Peaked in the 1950s · 25,408 total U.S. births since 1900