Meaning not yet researched.
Truth: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,303 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,303 in 2021; #1,662 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Truth in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,662 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,303.
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Truth: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,303 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 145 (2021).
In 2025, 101 US boys were named Truth, making it the 1,662nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 162 places from #1,500 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 120 boys named Truth in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,303, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 145. For comparison, it was #2,484 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Truth, making it the 3,969th most common girls’ name of the year, down 798 places from #3,171 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 51 girls named Truth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,683, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #7,587 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Truth in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 2,225 US babies have been given the name, 35% of them girls and 65% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,069 babies named Truth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,039 US boys were named Truth; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 145. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,912 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Truth ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #734 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Truett (4,532 babies since 1880) and Truitt (1,542 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Truthe 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: Truthe (5).
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 Truth 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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 6 | #734 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #848 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #896 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,021 | #1,293 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,456 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,813 | #1,515 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,060 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,969 | 101 | #1,662 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,171 | 120 | #1,500 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,267 | 121 | #1,487 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,683 | 138 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,782 | 145 | #1,303 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,821 | 120 | #1,450 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,888 | 102 | #1,622 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,668 | 79 | #1,899 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,474 | 61 | #2,215 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,778 | 52 | #2,473 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,587 | 51 | #2,484 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,443 | 35 | #3,223 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,537 | 39 | #2,949 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,121 | 31 | #3,522 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,549 | 30 | #3,594 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,368 | 31 | #3,520 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,076 | 27 | #3,911 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,085 | 24 | #4,254 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,075 | 30 | #3,586 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,124 | 17 | #5,281 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,305 | 13 | #6,193 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,224 | 15 | #5,467 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,274 | 9 | #7,783 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,253 | 18 | #4,480 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,419 | 8 | #8,277 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,477 | 11 | #6,282 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,310 | 5 | #11,503 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,020 | — | — |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,463 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #10,159 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,703 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,920 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,796 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,527 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,143 | — | — |
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).