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 | ||
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| 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 |
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| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
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| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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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 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#548 · 1 in 2,565
- Maryland#572 · 1 in 3,119
- North Carolina#659 · 1 in 3,926
- Alabama#667 · 1 in 3,669
- South Carolina#696 · 1 in 4,051
Best ever in a state: #530 in South Carolina, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #548 | 7 | 1 in 2,565 |
| Maryland | #572 | 8 | 1 in 3,119 |
| North Carolina | #659 | 13 | 1 in 3,926 |
| Alabama | #667 | 6 | 1 in 3,669 |
| South Carolina | #696 | 5 | 1 in 4,051 |
| Louisiana | #803 | 5 | 1 in 4,347 |
| Michigan | #895 | 7 | 1 in 6,138 |
| Illinois | #955 | 8 | 1 in 6,738 |
| Georgia | #965 | 8 | 1 in 6,296 |
| Virginia | #1,049 | 5 | 1 in 7,821 |
| Florida | #1,072 | 11 | 1 in 8,433 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,100 | 6 | 1 in 9,243 |
| New York | #1,229 | 9 | 1 in 9,904 |
| Texas | #1,368 | 13 | 1 in 13,163 |
| California | #1,704 | 9 | 1 in 21,042 |
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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 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 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 26,466 of them was named Truth, which outranked 84.4% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,715Selma63
- #2,715Viktoria63
- #2,715Zayleigh63
- #2,751Truth62
- #2,751Adalyne62
- #2,751Adria62
- #2,751Alyse62
- #2,784Aletheia61
- #2,784Aloni61
- #2,784Ami61
Tied with 32 names at #2,751; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 12,065 of them was named Truth, which outranked 90.8% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,291Taylen147
- #1,291Zakari147
- #1,299Jessie146
- #1,300Truth145
- #1,300Arham145
- #1,300Cortez145
- #1,300Perry145
- #1,306Mars144
- #1,307Akeem143
- #1,307Bernard143
Tied with 5 names at #1,300; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.