Meaning not yet researched.
Tru: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 496 in 2025. Its best rank was #591 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 65% of babies named Tru in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#591 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Tru: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 496 boys in 2025. Peak: #591 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 496 (2025).
In 2025, 496 US boys were named Tru, making it the 591st most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #616 in 2024. That is 31 more than the 465 boys named Tru in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #591, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 496. For comparison, it was #2,016 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 262 US girls were named Tru, making it the 974th most common girls’ name of the year, down 83 places from #891 in 2024. That is 40 fewer than the 302 girls named Tru in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #891, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 302. For comparison, it was #3,344 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tru in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1995 with 16 babies. In all, 6,324 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,961 babies named Tru.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,070 US boys were named Tru; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 496. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,444 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tru ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #180 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Troy (218,982 babies since 1880) and True (4,665 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Truee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Truee (46).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tru in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 18 | #180 | — |
| Louisiana | 24 | #220 | — |
| Delaware | 5 | #240 | — |
| South Carolina | 21 | #273 | — |
| Georgia | 39 | #320 | — |
| Maryland | 15 | #362 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #388 | — |
| Arkansas | 9 | #396 | — |
| Alabama | 13 | #421 | — |
| North Carolina | 26 | #430 | — |
| Michigan | 20 | #444 | — |
| Ohio | 24 | #454 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #482 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #509 | — |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #517 | — |
| Florida | 33 | #542 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | #544 | #1,315 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #549 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #566 | — |
| New Jersey | 12 | #601 | — |
| Illinois | 16 | #603 | — |
| Texas | 51 | #609 | #2,369 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #616 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #705 | — |
| New York | 18 | #795 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #835 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #960 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,023 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,117 | #1,366 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262 | #974 | 496 | #591 |
| 2024 | 302 | #891 | 465 | #616 |
| 2023 | 268 | #966 | 408 | #668 |
| 2022 | 287 | #948 | 429 | #644 |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,121 | 392 | #680 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,482 | 286 | #814 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,788 | 235 | #929 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,477 | 171 | #1,134 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,476 | 107 | #1,539 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,625 | 81 | #1,860 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,344 | 72 | #2,016 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,918 | 72 | #1,996 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,153 | 68 | #2,017 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,521 | 64 | #2,130 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,170 | 42 | #2,847 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,801 | 71 | #1,972 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,508 | 52 | #2,483 |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,002 | 44 | #2,785 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,372 | 29 | #3,682 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,777 | 29 | #3,595 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,965 | 32 | #3,235 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,572 | 32 | #3,153 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,973 | 21 | #4,099 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,051 | 13 | #5,705 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,231 | 15 | #5,126 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,905 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,299 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,998 | 8 | #7,503 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,063 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,908 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,718 | 9 | #6,374 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).