Truby — unisex name
34 babies named Truby in U.S. Social Security records since 1918, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
44% of everyone ever named Truby was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Truby in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Truby
The Social Security Administration has registered 34 babies named Truby between 1918 and 1954, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Truby currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1954. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Truby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 33 additional births since 1920.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Truby performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Truby shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Truby in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Truby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Truby at a glance
Last recorded 1954Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Truby popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1954–1918
- Peak year (1918)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 37 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1954.
34 total births across 37 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 8 births in a single year.
Truby popularity over time — boys
33 total births recorded since 1920 (Truby as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Truby accounts for 49% of total recorded use across both genders.
Truby by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 15 births that decade — 44% of Truby's all-time total
Truby decade highlights
- Peak decade 15 births
- Runner-up 8 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Truby's strongest decade
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Truby by state
Where Truby concentrates geographically — total births since 1918
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | West Virginia | | 5 | 14.7% |
5 of 34 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- West Virginia 14.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
West Virginia accounts for 14.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1918–1954 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.