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Tru vs Trust

American parents have registered 6,324 Trus since 1880, against 578 Trusts. Tru is still ahead, with 758 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tru against Trust, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tru Trust

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 2000, when Tru had 21 and Trust had 5.

Side by side

  Tru Trust
Total US births 6,324578
Most in one year 76756
Babies in 2025 75849
Estimated living today 6,300570
Median age today 45
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 591st boys3,117th boys
Rank in 2025 591st3,379th
First recorded 19952000
Girls / boys 2,530 / 3,794197 / 381

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tru and Trust.