Meaning not yet researched.
Trudy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #238 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #238 in 1946; #5,225 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Trudy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,225 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #238.
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Trudy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 girls in 2025. Peak: #238 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 975 (1947).
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Trudy, making it the 5,225th most common girls’ name of the year, down 458 places from #4,767 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 29 girls named Trudy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #238, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 975, in 1947. For comparison, it was #5,817 in 2015 and #244 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Trudy in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 25,628 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 8,348 babies named Trudy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 240 US girls were named Trudy; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 64,291 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gertrude (177,668 babies since 1880), Trudi (3,215 babies since 1880) and Trudie (3,148 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Trudee are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Gertrude.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trudee (97).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,225 | — | — |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,767 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,373 | — | — |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,164 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,065 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,600 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,073 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,438 | — | — |
| 2015 | 23 | #5,817 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,388 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,831 | — | — |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,886 | — | — |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,795 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,129 | — | — |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,074 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,690 | — | — |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,478 | — | — |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,117 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,803 | — | — |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,780 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,953 | — | — |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,221 | — | — |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,510 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1981 | 117 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1979 | 128 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1978 | 144 | #968 | — | — |
| 1977 | 158 | #902 | — | — |
| 1976 | 207 | #708 | — | — |
| 1975 | 179 | #787 | — | — |
| 1974 | 211 | #700 | — | — |
| 1973 | 271 | #584 | — | — |
| 1972 | 272 | #590 | — | — |
| 1971 | 277 | #615 | — | — |
| 1970 | 353 | #538 | — | — |
| 1969 | 347 | #528 | — | — |
| 1968 | 404 | #478 | — | — |
| 1967 | 426 | #458 | — | — |
| 1966 | 521 | #406 | — | — |
| 1965 | 584 | #377 | — | — |
| 1964 | 672 | #365 | — | — |
| 1963 | 852 | #325 | — | — |
| 1962 | 717 | #355 | — | — |
| 1961 | 681 | #367 | — | — |
| 1960 | 719 | #363 | — | — |
| 1959 | 763 | #345 | — | — |
| 1958 | 831 | #322 | — | — |
| 1957 | 773 | #330 | — | — |
| 1956 | 740 | #322 | — | — |
| 1955 | 859 | #297 | — | — |
| 1954 | 770 | #304 | — | — |
| 1953 | 828 | #289 | — | — |
| 1952 | 925 | #261 | — | — |
| 1951 | 922 | #253 | — | — |
| 1950 | 937 | #244 | — | — |
| 1949 | 905 | #252 | — | — |
| 1948 | 883 | #253 | — | — |
| 1947 | 975 | #240 | — | — |
| 1946 | 891 | #238 | 5 | #3,982 |
| 1945 | 728 | #250 | — | — |
| 1944 | 652 | #269 | — | — |
| 1943 | 505 | #309 | — | — |
| 1942 | 267 | #451 | — | — |
| 1941 | 226 | #462 | — | — |
| 1940 | 164 | #535 | — | — |
| 1939 | 127 | #595 | — | — |
| 1938 | 121 | #624 | — | — |
| 1937 | 91 | #716 | — | — |
| 1936 | 80 | #755 | — | — |
| 1935 | 77 | #772 | — | — |
| 1934 | 58 | #904 | — | — |
| 1933 | 50 | #984 | — | — |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1931 | 52 | #968 | — | — |
| 1930 | 56 | #992 | — | — |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,498 | — | — |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,239 | — | — |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,804 | — | — |
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).