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Truce vs Truett

American parents have registered 4,532 Truetts since 1880, against 643 Truces. Truett is still ahead, with 586 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Truce against Truett, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Truce Truett

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

Truett has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1912 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Truce had 344 and Truett had 586.

Side by side

  Truce Truett
Total US births 6434,532
Most in one year 344586
Babies in 2025 344586
Estimated living today 6404,000
Median age today 04
Peak year 20252025
Best rank 773rd boys518th boys
Rank in 2025 773rd518th
First recorded 20091912
Girls / boys 23 / 62048 / 4,484

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 Truetts 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

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

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