Tru
Tru is given to both girls and boys: 262 girls and 496 boys were given it in 2025 (#974 among girls’ names and #591 among boys’, #849 among all names counting both); 6,324 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Tru every year since 2010.
An estimated 6,280 Americans named Tru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tru?
#591 among boys’ names, 2025
Tru rose from #2,016 in 2015 to #591 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.04 to 0.29 per 1,000.
767 babies in 2024, the peak
Tru peaked in 2024, when 767 babies were given it (465 boys, #616 among boys’ names). The 758 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 99% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 262 | #974 | 496 | #591 |
| 2024 | 302 | #891 | 465 | #616 |
| 2023 | 268 | #966 | 408 | #668 |
| 2022 | 287 | #948 | 429 | #644 |
| 2021 | 221 | #1,121 | 392 | #680 |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,482 | 286 | #814 |
| 2019 | 115 | #1,788 | 235 | #929 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,477 | 171 | #1,134 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,475 | 107 | #1,539 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,624 | 81 | #1,860 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,344 | 72 | #2,016 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,916 | 72 | #1,995 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,151 | 68 | #2,016 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,520 | 64 | #2,129 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,169 | 42 | #2,846 |
| 2010 | 63 | #2,800 | 71 | #1,971 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,507 | 52 | #2,482 |
| 2008 | 40 | #4,001 | 44 | #2,784 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,372 | 29 | #3,680 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,777 | 29 | #3,593 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,964 | 32 | #3,231 |
| 2004 | 126 | #1,571 | 32 | #3,149 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,968 | 21 | #4,094 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,045 | 13 | #5,698 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,224 | 15 | #5,120 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 21 | #3,899 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 13 | #5,293 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,991 | 8 | #7,496 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #6,057 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,901 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,713 | 9 | #6,368 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,324 Americans recorded as Tru, 40% are girls and 60% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tru, and how old are they?
6,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,324 Americans ever recorded as Tru. The median Tru alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 2,383 people named Tru (1,031 women and girls, 1,352 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tru born?
The states with the most babies named Tru are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 80 | #609 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 62 | #320 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 55 | #542 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 44 | #430 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 40 | #220 | 2.6× |
| Ohio | 40 | #454 | 0.9× |
| California | 31 | #1,117 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 30 | #444 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 28 | #603 | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 27 | #362 | 1.4× |
Where Tru is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tru is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1995 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tru with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,239 babies since 1880, Tru is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 758 of their 1,168 babies (65%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tru
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tru and names like it
- Compare Tru and TrueBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTru peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tru since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Tru.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tru alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.