Tru vs Truce

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Tru Truce

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tru has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Tru had 758 and Truce had 344.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Trus alive today are over 4; half the Truces have not had a first birthday. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Tru Louisiana (3.3×), Georgia (2.9×), Maryland (2.5×)
• Truce Mississippi (4.7×), Georgia (4.0×), South Carolina (3.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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