True

True is the 4,359th most common surname in the United States, shared by 7,865 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 38,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,865
Rank: 4,359th
How common: 1 in 38,000
Per 100,000: 2.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname True described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called True

Rachel True (born 1966)American actress
Frederick W. True (1858–1914)American biologist, mammalogist and curator
Nicholas True, Baron True (born 1951)Leader of the House of Lords since 2022
Alexander True (born 1997)Danish ice hockey player

People named True with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like True

Also a first name

True has been given to 4,665 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.