Truth
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births · #1,654 for boys in 2025, 101 births
Given to boys 65.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 145 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,452since 1978
Truth 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 | #3,903 | 37 | #1,654 | 101 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | #1,494 | 120 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #1,485 | 121 |
| 2022 | #2,661 | 65 | #1,353 | 138 |
| 2021 | #2,751 | 62 | #1,300 | 145 |
| 2020 | #2,779 | 59 | #1,437 | 120 |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | #1,614 | 102 |
| 2018 | #3,614 | 42 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 | #2,437 | 52 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #2,457 | 51 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 | #3,831 | 27 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #7,733 | 16 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #5,246 | 15 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #4,322 | 18 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | — | ||
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 | — | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | — | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 | — | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Truth! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1995, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Truth is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Truth in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Truth
- 160 spots since 2024 (#1,494 → #1,654)
- 217 spots since 2020 (#1,437 → #1,654)
- 803 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #1,654)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2021 at #1,300 (145 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,065 boys born in 2021 were named Truth (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,912 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 51.3% of all boys named Truth (745) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2006, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 19 | #5,982 (1996) | #8,231 |
| 2000s | 172 | #3,511 (2007) | #5,270 |
| 2010s | 511 | #1,614 (2019) | #2,704 |
| 2020s | 745 | #1,300 (2021) | #1,454 |
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.
Truth in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 328,367 of them was named Truth, which outranked 14.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 990 names at #5,772; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.