True

Where True comes from

True hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    True Boardman born
    actor
  2. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1895
    Peak, #872
    7 babies named True — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1994
    True O'Brien born
    American actress and model
  6. 2023
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • True Boardman · actor, 1882–1918
  • True O'Brien · American actress and model, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.