Trudi
Trudi was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 3,215 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,660 Americans named Trudi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 56 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trudi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Trudi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Trudi is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
In some cases, a 20th-century spelling of Trudy; in other cases borrowed from German Trudi.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Trudi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,543, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
140 babies in 1965, the peak
Trudi peaked in 1965, when 140 girls were given it, #845 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,543 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,123 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,493 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,688 | 5.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,013 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,729 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,714 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,345 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,479 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,399 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 | #11,342 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,712 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,651 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,764 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,579 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,064 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,772 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,875 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,932 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,850 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,130 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,070 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,276 | 15.7 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,378 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,252 | 25.9 |
| 1975 | 50 | #1,853 | 34.3 |
| 1974 | 68 | #1,472 | 46.3 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,547 | 41.8 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,279 | 53.2 |
| 1971 | 82 | #1,321 | 49.3 |
| 1970 | 116 | #1,059 | 66.4 |
| 1969 | 102 | #1,098 | 60.5 |
| 1968 | 104 | #1,021 | 63.4 |
| 1967 | 103 | #1,018 | 62.4 |
| 1966 | 129 | #886 | 76.2 |
| 1965 | 140 | #845 | 79.3 |
| 1964 | 109 | #1,040 | 57.5 |
| 1963 | 112 | #1,009 | 58.1 |
| 1962 | 105 | #1,057 | 53.4 |
| 1961 | 104 | #1,078 | 51.5 |
| 1960 | 107 | #1,041 | 52.9 |
| 1959 | 98 | #1,077 | 48.4 |
| 1958 | 92 | #1,102 | 45.7 |
| 1957 | 71 | #1,251 | 34.7 |
| 1956 | 84 | #1,131 | 41.8 |
| 1955 | 90 | #1,068 | 46.0 |
| 1954 | 71 | #1,194 | 36.6 |
| 1953 | 71 | #1,153 | 37.7 |
| 1952 | 75 | #1,094 | 40.4 |
| 1951 | 81 | #1,035 | 45.0 |
| 1950 | 78 | #1,038 | 45.5 |
| 1949 | 59 | #1,187 | 34.5 |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,171 | 35.3 |
| 1947 | 101 | #880 | 57.0 |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,128 | 36.3 |
| 1945 | 44 | #1,209 | 33.7 |
| 1944 | 51 | #1,100 | 38.4 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,658 | 19.4 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,701 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,827 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,678 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,198 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,436 | 11.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Trudi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Trudi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Trudi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trudi, and how old are they?
2,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 3,215 Americans ever recorded as Trudi. The median Trudi alive today is 62 years old; half are between 56 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 3,034 people named Trudi (3,034 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 104 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,090 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 152 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Trudi born?
The states with the most babies named Trudi are California, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 366 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 128 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 118 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 62 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 58 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Trudi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trudi is most over-represented in California: since 1938 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Trudi 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 32,474 babies since 1880, Trudi is the second most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Trudi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Trudi
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 Trudi and names like it
- Compare Trudi and TrudyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTrudi peaked in 1965.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trudi since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Trudi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Trudi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Trudi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.