Trudy

Where Trudy comes from

Trudy hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1920
    Trudy Marshall born
    American actress
  3. 1946
    Peak, #238
    891 babies named Trudy — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1952
    Trudy Mackay born
    Canadian geneticist
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #458.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Trudy Mackay · Canadian geneticist, born 1952
  • Trudy Marshall · American actress, 1920–2004
  • Trudy Groenman · Dutch tennis player, born 1944
  • Trudy Stevenson · Zimbabwean politician, 1944–2018
  • Trudy Pitts · African-American jazz musician, 1932–2010

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.