True
#1,382 for girls in 2025, 158 births · #1,046 for boys in 2025, 211 births
Given to boys 53.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1895 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,479since 1882
True 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 | #1,382 | 158 | #1,046 | 211 |
| 2024 | #1,160 | 207 | #980 | 230 |
| 2023 | #1,173 | 205 | #977 | 224 |
| 2022 | #1,172 | 206 | #1,119 | 190 |
| 2021 | #1,129 | 218 | #1,092 | 192 |
| 2020 | #1,299 | 170 | #1,166 | 165 |
| 2019 | #1,502 | 145 | #1,244 | 151 |
| 2018 | #2,254 | 81 | #1,663 | 96 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | #2,217 | 60 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 | #2,689 | 45 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #2,300 | 57 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | #2,175 | 62 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 | #2,461 | 50 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 | #2,380 | 53 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #3,223 | 35 |
| 2008 | #6,130 | 22 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2007 | #4,808 | 30 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2006 | #5,383 | 25 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #3,219 | 26 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #4,059 | 16 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | — | #5,942 | 8 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | #6,262 | 5 | |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | — | — | ||
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| 1976 | — | — | ||
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| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
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| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 | — | |
| 1955 | — | — | ||
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| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 | #3,173 | 6 |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
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| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 | — | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | — | |
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 | #2,755 | 10 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | #2,765 | 10 | |
| 1919 | #2,384 | 14 | #3,115 | 8 |
| 1918 | #4,291 | 6 | #2,543 | 11 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 | #3,825 | 5 |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
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| 1905 | #1,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 | — | |
| 1903 | — | — | ||
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| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #1,121 | 5 | |
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | #872 | 7 | |
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | #943 | 5 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named True! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1894, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about True
- 66 spots since 2024 (#980 → #1,046)
- 120 spots since 2020 (#1,166 → #1,046)
- 1,254 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #1,046)
- Biggest jump: 142 spots in 2023 (#1,119 → #977)
- Biggest drop: 66 spots in 2025 (#980 → #1,046)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1895 at #872 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1896, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2023–2024
- Highest: 1 in 7,491 boys born in 2024 were named True (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,095 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #872 in 1895, was only 1 in 16,770 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 48.9% of all boys named True (1,212) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #943 (1882) | #943 |
| 1890s | 12 | #872 (1895) | #997 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 44 | #2,543 (1918) | #3,165 |
| 1920s | 60 | #2,755 (1925) | #3,488 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 12 | #3,173 (1946) | #3,272 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,329 (1950) | #3,329 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,505 (1973) | #4,505 |
| 1980s | 39 | #5,003 (1982) | #6,337 |
| 1990s | 154 | #3,017 (1998) | #4,796 |
| 2000s | 286 | #2,684 (2007) | #3,545 |
| 2010s | 643 | #1,244 (2019) | #2,370 |
| 2020s | 1,212 | #977 (2023) | #1,063 |
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.
True in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 42,904 of them was named True, which outranked 81.0% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,659Yuritzi42
- #3,659Yzabella42
- #3,659Zipporah42
- #3,723True41
- #3,723Aariyah41
- #3,723Aashna41
- #3,723Abbygale41
- #3,781Acadia40
- #3,781Acelynn40
- #3,781Alaura40
Tied with 57 names at #3,723; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 67,830 of them was named True, which outranked 74.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,605Treshaun29
- #3,605Treyvion29
- #3,605Xaviar29
- #3,695True28
- #3,695Adonay28
- #3,695Ahaan28
- #3,695Alexandru28
- #3,792Abdias27
- #3,792Adon27
- #3,792Advait27
Tied with 96 names at #3,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.