Tru
#972 for girls in 2025, 262 births · #591 for boys in 2025, 496 births
Given to boys 60.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 496 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,794since 1995
Tru over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #972 | 262 | #591 | 496 |
| 2024 | #890 | 302 | #613 | 465 |
| 2023 | #964 | 268 | #666 | 408 |
| 2022 | #946 | 287 | #642 | 429 |
| 2021 | #1,116 | 221 | #679 | 392 |
| 2020 | #1,474 | 145 | #812 | 286 |
| 2019 | #1,773 | 115 | #927 | 235 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | #1,128 | 171 |
| 2017 | #3,436 | 45 | #1,530 | 107 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #1,845 | 81 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #2,001 | 72 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | #1,979 | 72 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #2,009 | 68 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 | #1,957 | 71 |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #2,757 | 64 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #1,562 | 126 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,928 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tru! It came in at #5,928, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1998, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Tru is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Louisiana#620 · 1 in 3,264
- Pennsylvania#648 · 1 in 4,772
- Maryland#699 · 1 in 4,398
- Virginia#726 · 1 in 5,092
- Ohio#842 · 1 in 6,368
Best ever in a state: #173 in Mississippi, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #620 | 7 | 1 in 3,264 |
| Pennsylvania | #648 | 12 | 1 in 4,772 |
| Maryland | #699 | 6 | 1 in 4,398 |
| Virginia | #726 | 8 | 1 in 5,092 |
| Ohio | #842 | 9 | 1 in 6,368 |
| North Carolina | #844 | 8 | 1 in 6,270 |
| Missouri | #858 | 5 | 1 in 6,069 |
| Georgia | #931 | 8 | 1 in 6,524 |
| Tennessee | #950 | 5 | 1 in 7,101 |
| Texas | #1,115 | 17 | 1 in 10,287 |
| California | #1,242 | 15 | 1 in 13,768 |
| Florida | #1,280 | 8 | 1 in 11,980 |
| New York | #1,435 | 7 | 1 in 13,677 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tru
- 22 spots since 2024 (#613 → #591)
- 221 spots since 2020 (#812 → #591)
- 1,410 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #591)
- Biggest jump: 201 spots in 2019 (#1,128 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 24 spots in 2023 (#642 → #666)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2025 at #591 (496 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,444 boys born in 2025 were named Tru (0.03%)
- 65.3% of all boys named Tru (2,476) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 47 | #5,035 (1999) | #6,117 |
| 2000s | 288 | #2,451 (2009) | #3,659 |
| 2010s | 983 | #927 (2019) | #1,828 |
| 2020s | 2,476 | #591 (2025) | #667 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tru in 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 23,626 of them was named Tru, which outranked 86.5% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,438Rayah73
- #2,438Rooney73
- #2,438Sunshine73
- #2,457Tru72
- #2,457Avarie72
- #2,457Avayah72
- #2,457Berenice72
- #2,478Abrianna71
- #2,478Adria71
- #2,478Adyson71
Tied with 20 names at #2,457; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 10,621 of them was named Tru, which outranked 92.0% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,122Palmer172
- #1,122Rio172
- #1,122Westyn172
- #1,128Tru171
- #1,128Aaden171
- #1,128Ansel171
- #1,128Cayde171
- #1,135Brenden170
- #1,135Eliel170
- #1,135Raheem170
Tied with 6 names at #1,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.