Trudy vs Trust
American parents have registered 25,628 Trudys since 1880, against 578 Trusts. But in 2025 it was Trust that was commoner, 49 babies to 25.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Trudy 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
Of the 128 years in which either name was published, Trudy for 116 years and Trust for 12 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.
Side by side
| Trudy | Trust | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 25,628 | 578 |
| Most in one year | 975 | 56 |
| Babies in 2025 | 25 | 49 |
| Estimated living today | 19,000 | 570 |
| Median age today | 67 | 5 |
| Peak year | 1947 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 240th girls | 3,117th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,099th | 3,379th |
| First recorded | 1896 | 2000 |
| Girls / boys | 25,623 / 5 | 197 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Trudys alive today are over 67; half the Trusts are over 5. That is 62 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trudy and Trust.