Meaning not yet researched.
True: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 211 in 2025. Its best rank was #970 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #970 in 1895; #1,050 in 2025. About 57% of babies named True in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,050 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #970.
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True: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 211 boys in 2025. Peak: #970 in 1895 · most boys in one year: 230 (2024).
In 2025, 211 US boys were named True, making it the 1,050th most common boys’ name of the year, down 68 places from #982 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 230 boys named True in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #970, reached in 1895. The most boys given the name in a single year was 230, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,326 in 2015 and #3,652 in 1950.
In 2025, 158 US girls were named True, making it the 1,387th most common girls’ name of the year, down 224 places from #1,163 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 207 girls named True in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,134, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 218. For comparison, it was #3,983 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list True in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 4,665 US babies have been given the name, 47% of them girls and 53% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,376 babies named True.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,564 US boys were named True; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 230. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,095 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, True ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #617 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 Tru (6,324 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 True 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 8 | #617 | — |
| Georgia | 16 | #649 | #1,365 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #660 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #691 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #712 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #777 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #788 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #841 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #918 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #931 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,009 | — |
| Texas | 23 | #1,037 | #2,104 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,063 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,186 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,260 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,395 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,675 | #2,540 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,387 | 211 | #1,050 |
| 2024 | 207 | #1,163 | 230 | #982 |
| 2023 | 205 | #1,173 | 224 | #984 |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,176 | 190 | #1,120 |
| 2021 | 218 | #1,134 | 192 | #1,095 |
| 2020 | 170 | #1,302 | 165 | #1,170 |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,507 | 151 | #1,248 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,272 | 96 | #1,669 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,371 | 60 | #2,237 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,525 | 45 | #2,723 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,983 | 57 | #2,326 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,324 | 62 | #2,202 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,696 | 50 | #2,490 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,522 | 53 | #2,411 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,779 | 28 | #3,786 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,965 | 41 | #2,911 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,470 | 35 | #3,269 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,337 | 40 | #3,000 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,937 | 45 | #2,716 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,538 | 19 | #4,846 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,105 | 26 | #3,702 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,541 | 23 | #3,992 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,042 | 23 | #3,832 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,419 | 16 | #4,895 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,294 | 33 | #2,857 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,697 | 26 | #3,294 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,212 | 26 | #3,174 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,071 | 26 | #3,086 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,775 | 16 | #4,230 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,551 | 17 | #4,008 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,841 | 19 | #3,549 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,585 | 20 | #3,459 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,352 | 12 | #4,976 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,253 | 5 | #9,725 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,481 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,143 | 5 | #9,403 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #9,147 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,209 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,068 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,353 | 6 | #6,273 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,446 | 7 | #5,587 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,227 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,238 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #5,058 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,430 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,918 | — | — |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,652 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,706 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,390 | 6 | #3,495 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,168 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,945 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,841 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,912 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,129 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,779 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,342 | 10 | #2,922 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,404 | 6 | #4,313 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,923 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,959 | 5 | #4,901 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,049 | 5 | #4,919 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,945 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,498 | 8 | #3,368 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,763 | 11 | #2,686 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,256 | 8 | #3,191 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,890 | 5 | #4,471 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,766 | 5 | #4,341 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,887 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,662 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,278 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #970 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,084 |
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).