Trudy
Trudy is a girl's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 240th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,099th. About 19,000 Trudys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Trudy boys named Trudy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 25,628
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 240th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,099th
- First recorded
- 1896
- Girls / boys
- 25,623 / 5
How old the living Trudys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 25,628 babies given the name since 1896, about 19,000 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 410 of them are children and 11,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Trudys
- Trudy Mackay (born 1952)Canadian geneticist
People named Trudy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Trudy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Trudy is most concentrated in Utah (2.6×), Idaho (2.5×), Louisiana (2.5×), Iowa (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Trudy peaked:
Trudy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Trudy | 236 | 1,502nd |
| Ireland girls | Trudy | 140 | 263rd |
| Scotland girls | Trudy | 51 | 267th |
| France girls | Trudy | 10 | 1,963rd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Trudy | 3 | 419th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Trudy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.