Tru
#972 for girls in 2025, 262 births · #591 for boys in 2025, 496 births
Given to boys 60.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 496 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,794since 1995
Tru over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #972 | 262 | #591 | 496 |
| 2024 | #890 | 302 | #613 | 465 |
| 2023 | #964 | 268 | #666 | 408 |
| 2022 | #946 | 287 | #642 | 429 |
| 2021 | #1,116 | 221 | #679 | 392 |
| 2020 | #1,474 | 145 | #812 | 286 |
| 2019 | #1,773 | 115 | #927 | 235 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 | #1,128 | 171 |
| 2017 | #3,436 | 45 | #1,530 | 107 |
| 2016 | #4,531 | 31 | #1,845 | 81 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #2,001 | 72 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 | #1,979 | 72 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 | #2,009 | 68 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #2,781 | 63 | #1,957 | 71 |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #3,936 | 40 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #3,329 | 50 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #2,757 | 64 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #1,950 | 98 | #3,172 | 32 |
| 2004 | #1,562 | 126 | #3,074 | 32 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #5,395 | 13 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | — | #3,764 | 21 | |
| 1999 | — | #5,035 | 13 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,928 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tru! It came in at #5,928, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995–1998, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tru
- 22 spots since 2024 (#613 → #591)
- 221 spots since 2020 (#812 → #591)
- 1,410 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #591)
- Biggest jump: 201 spots in 2019 (#1,128 → #927)
- Biggest drop: 24 spots in 2023 (#642 → #666)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2025 at #591 (496 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2019–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,444 boys born in 2025 were named Tru (0.03%)
- 65.3% of all boys named Tru (2,476) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2011, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 47 | #5,035 (1999) | #6,117 |
| 2000s | 288 | #2,451 (2009) | #3,659 |
| 2010s | 983 | #927 (2019) | #1,828 |
| 2020s | 2,476 | #591 (2025) | #667 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tru in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 48,743 of them was named Tru, which outranked 78.9% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,002Trina37
- #4,002Zenobia37
- #4,002Zori37
- #4,076Tru36
- #4,076Adalyne36
- #4,076Ainsleigh36
- #4,076Analiz36
- #4,156Aariyah35
- #4,156Abbygale35
- #4,156Adalene35
Tied with 79 names at #4,076; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 27,817 of them was named Tru, which outranked 85.7% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,989Osman69
- #1,989Oswaldo69
- #1,989Shayan69
- #2,009Tru68
- #2,009Demian68
- #2,009Domani68
- #2,009Kasyn68
- #2,021Aiyden67
- #2,021Aksel67
- #2,021Alston67
Tied with 11 names at #2,009; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.