Meaning not yet researched.
Truman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 111 in 2025. Its best rank was #248 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #248 in 1945; #1,553 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Truman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,553 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #248.
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Truman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 111 boys in 2025. Peak: #248 in 1945 · most boys in one year: 540 (1945).
In 2025, 111 US boys were named Truman, making it the 1,553rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 265 places from #1,818 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 90 boys named Truman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #248, reached in 1945. That year also had the most boys given the name: 540. For comparison, it was #973 in 2015 and #636 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Truman in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 15,973 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,350 babies named Truman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,403 US boys were named Truman; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 193. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,388 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Truman ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #456 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Trumaine, Trueman and Trumon 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Trumaine (417), Trueman (274), Trumon (41).
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 Truman 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 14 | #456 | #461 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #700 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #801 | #267 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,455 | #834 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,548 | #1,146 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 111 | #1,553 |
| 2024 | — | — | 90 | #1,818 |
| 2023 | — | — | 114 | #1,546 |
| 2022 | — | — | 125 | #1,454 |
| 2021 | — | — | 130 | #1,417 |
| 2020 | — | — | 148 | #1,254 |
| 2019 | — | — | 152 | #1,242 |
| 2018 | — | — | 165 | #1,166 |
| 2017 | — | — | 175 | #1,109 |
| 2016 | — | — | 193 | #1,034 |
| 2015 | — | — | 213 | #973 |
| 2014 | — | — | 221 | #957 |
| 2013 | — | — | 209 | #961 |
| 2012 | — | — | 220 | #931 |
| 2011 | — | — | 183 | #1,040 |
| 2010 | — | — | 197 | #996 |
| 2009 | — | — | 174 | #1,073 |
| 2008 | — | — | 176 | #1,068 |
| 2007 | — | — | 202 | #976 |
| 2006 | — | — | 194 | #961 |
| 2005 | — | — | 167 | #1,017 |
| 2004 | — | — | 175 | #962 |
| 2003 | — | — | 159 | #997 |
| 2002 | — | — | 140 | #1,078 |
| 2001 | — | — | 130 | #1,099 |
| 2000 | — | — | 145 | #1,014 |
| 1999 | — | — | 118 | #1,125 |
| 1998 | — | — | 115 | #1,122 |
| 1997 | — | — | 95 | #1,231 |
| 1996 | — | — | 106 | #1,125 |
| 1995 | — | — | 78 | #1,335 |
| 1994 | — | — | 78 | #1,329 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,399 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,881 |
| 1991 | — | — | 51 | #1,650 |
| 1990 | — | — | 50 | #1,660 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,704 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,676 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,530 |
| 1986 | — | — | 42 | #1,585 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,351 |
| 1984 | — | — | 41 | #1,529 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,628 |
| 1982 | — | — | 29 | #1,928 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,762 |
| 1980 | — | — | 37 | #1,616 |
| 1979 | — | — | 37 | #1,594 |
| 1978 | — | — | 39 | #1,506 |
| 1977 | — | — | 54 | #1,208 |
| 1976 | — | — | 49 | #1,266 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,448 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,265 |
| 1973 | — | — | 43 | #1,267 |
| 1972 | — | — | 51 | #1,148 |
| 1971 | — | — | 77 | #932 |
| 1970 | — | — | 57 | #1,091 |
| 1969 | — | — | 62 | #980 |
| 1968 | — | — | 59 | #957 |
| 1967 | — | — | 56 | #980 |
| 1966 | — | — | 46 | #1,099 |
| 1965 | — | — | 66 | #919 |
| 1964 | — | — | 52 | #1,057 |
| 1963 | — | — | 56 | #1,017 |
| 1962 | — | — | 51 | #1,079 |
| 1961 | — | — | 53 | #1,076 |
| 1960 | — | — | 70 | #909 |
| 1959 | — | — | 39 | #1,263 |
| 1958 | — | — | 50 | #1,089 |
| 1957 | — | — | 58 | #1,004 |
| 1956 | — | — | 51 | #1,067 |
| 1955 | — | — | 64 | #940 |
| 1954 | — | — | 74 | #850 |
| 1953 | — | — | 71 | #857 |
| 1952 | — | — | 70 | #839 |
| 1951 | — | — | 76 | #812 |
| 1950 | — | — | 119 | #636 |
| 1949 | — | — | 158 | #532 |
| 1948 | — | — | 160 | #527 |
| 1947 | — | — | 204 | #470 |
| 1946 | — | — | 286 | #387 |
| 1945 | — | — | 540 | #248 |
| 1944 | — | — | 197 | #435 |
| 1943 | — | — | 213 | #426 |
| 1942 | — | — | 170 | #471 |
| 1941 | — | — | 164 | #463 |
| 1940 | — | — | 210 | #395 |
| 1939 | — | — | 174 | #431 |
| 1938 | — | — | 168 | #446 |
| 1937 | — | — | 194 | #403 |
| 1936 | — | — | 176 | #420 |
| 1935 | — | — | 198 | #387 |
| 1934 | — | — | 203 | #385 |
| 1933 | — | — | 196 | #391 |
| 1932 | — | — | 183 | #415 |
| 1931 | — | — | 197 | #403 |
| 1930 | — | — | 202 | #413 |
| 1929 | — | — | 217 | #393 |
| 1928 | — | — | 198 | #423 |
| 1927 | — | — | 241 | #382 |
| 1926 | — | — | 221 | #401 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,702 | 260 | #369 |
| 1924 | — | — | 240 | #390 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,662 | 212 | #412 |
| 1922 | — | — | 245 | #386 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,050 | 238 | #392 |
| 1920 | — | — | 262 | #371 |
| 1919 | — | — | 225 | #390 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,526 | 240 | #385 |
| 1917 | — | — | 225 | #376 |
| 1916 | — | — | 219 | #371 |
| 1915 | — | — | 202 | #378 |
| 1914 | — | — | 162 | #374 |
| 1913 | — | — | 146 | #342 |
| 1912 | — | — | 82 | #432 |
| 1911 | — | — | 50 | #408 |
| 1910 | — | — | 39 | #445 |
| 1909 | — | — | 34 | #435 |
| 1908 | — | — | 38 | #381 |
| 1907 | — | — | 30 | #428 |
| 1906 | — | — | 31 | #393 |
| 1905 | — | — | 30 | #392 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,147 | 34 | #350 |
| 1903 | — | — | 19 | #503 |
| 1902 | — | — | 20 | #486 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #532 |
| 1900 | — | — | 25 | #468 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #779 |
| 1898 | — | — | 16 | #540 |
| 1897 | — | — | 14 | #581 |
| 1896 | — | — | 20 | #459 |
| 1895 | — | — | 15 | #555 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #462 |
| 1893 | — | — | 18 | #446 |
| 1892 | — | — | 16 | #521 |
| 1891 | — | — | 22 | #376 |
| 1890 | — | — | 18 | #432 |
| 1889 | — | — | 13 | #548 |
| 1888 | — | — | 18 | #463 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #743 |
| 1886 | — | — | 14 | #510 |
| 1885 | — | — | 17 | #459 |
| 1884 | — | — | 15 | #502 |
| 1883 | — | — | 21 | #380 |
| 1882 | — | — | 17 | #450 |
| 1881 | — | — | 20 | #387 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #565 |
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).