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Truett vs Trustin

American parents have registered 4,532 Truetts since 1880, against 612 Trustins. Truett is still ahead, with 586 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Truett Trustin

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 104 years in which either name was published, Truett for 93 years and Trustin for 11 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Truett Trustin
Total US births 4,532612
Most in one year 58636
Babies in 2025 58614
Estimated living today 4,000600
Median age today 417
Peak year 20252004
Best rank 518th boys2,843rd boys
Rank in 2025 518th6,143rd
First recorded 19121983
Girls / boys 48 / 4,4840 / 612

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 Trustins alive today are over 17; half the Truetts are over 4. That is 13 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: Truett and Trustin.