True vs Truett
American parents have registered 4,665 Trues since 1880, against 4,532 Truetts. But in 2025 it was Truett that was commoner, 586 babies to 369.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
True 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
Of the 112 years in which either name was published, Truett for 70 years and True for 42 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.
- 1882–1905 True ahead
- 1912–1980 Truett ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1990–2008 True ahead
- 2009–2017 Truett ahead, apart from one short spell
- 2018–2024 True ahead
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| True | Truett | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 4,665 | 4,532 |
| Most in one year | 437 | 586 |
| Babies in 2025 | 369 | 586 |
| Estimated living today | 4,400 | 4,000 |
| Median age today | 5 | 4 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 980th boys | 518th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,046th | 518th |
| First recorded | 1882 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 2,186 / 2,479 | 48 / 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.
Where each one is strongest
- True Georgia (3.6×), Maryland (2.9×), Florida (2.1×)
- Truett Texas (4.4×), South Dakota (2.7×), Tennessee (2.6×)
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: True and Truett.