Trudy
Trudy was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,224 among girls’ names; 25,628 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,200 Americans named Trudy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 60 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trudy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Trudy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Trudy is “a diminutive of Gertrude, also used as a formal female given name.”
Shortened Gertrude + -y.
/ˈtɹudi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Trudy?
#5,224 among girls’ names, 2025
Trudy rose from #5,815 in 2015 to #5,224 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 15.6 per million.
975 babies in 1947, the peak
Trudy peaked in 1947, when 975 girls were given it, #240 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,224 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,765 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,369 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,161 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,597 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,061 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,596 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,983 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,069 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,437 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (128)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,815 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,962 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,720 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,386 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,828 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,883 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,792 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,127 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,070 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,686 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,778 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,473 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,780 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,112 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,798 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,775 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,563 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,949 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,804 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,295 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,576 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,228 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,410 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,407 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,981 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,216 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,759 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,409 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,430 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,509 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 72 | #1,582 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 66 | #1,688 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 117 | #1,154 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 128 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 144 | #968 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 158 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 207 | #708 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 179 | #787 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 211 | #700 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 271 | #584 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 272 | #590 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 277 | #615 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 353 | #538 | 0.20 |
| 1969 | 347 | #528 | 0.21 |
| 1968 | 404 | #478 | 0.25 |
| 1967 | 426 | #458 | 0.26 |
| 1966 | 521 | #406 | 0.31 |
| 1965 | 584 | #377 | 0.33 |
| 1964 | 672 | #365 | 0.35 |
| 1963 | 852 | #325 | 0.44 |
| 1962 | 717 | #355 | 0.36 |
| 1961 | 681 | #367 | 0.34 |
| 1960 | 719 | #363 | 0.36 |
| 1959 | 763 | #345 | 0.38 |
| 1958 | 831 | #322 | 0.41 |
| 1957 | 773 | #330 | 0.38 |
| 1956 | 740 | #322 | 0.37 |
| 1955 | 859 | #297 | 0.44 |
| 1954 | 770 | #304 | 0.40 |
| 1953 | 828 | #289 | 0.44 |
| 1952 | 925 | #261 | 0.50 |
| 1951 | 922 | #253 | 0.51 |
| 1950 | 937 | #244 | 0.55 |
| 1949 | 905 | #252 | 0.53 |
| 1948 | 883 | #253 | 0.52 |
| 1947 | 975 | #240 | 0.55 |
| 1946 | 891 | #238 | 0.57 |
| 1945 | 728 | #250 | 0.56 |
| 1944 | 652 | #269 | 0.49 |
| 1943 | 505 | #309 | 0.36 |
| 1942 | 267 | #451 | 0.20 |
| 1941 | 226 | #462 | 0.19 |
| 1940 | 164 | #535 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 127 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1938 | 121 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 91 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 80 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1935 | 77 | #772 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 58 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 50 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,080 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 52 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 56 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,156 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,206 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 29 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,400 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,719 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,542 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,239 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,521 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 17 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 16 | #1,165 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,196 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,799 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,850 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #2,065 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,922 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,418 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,803 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Trudy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Trudy has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 128 years of records.
Girls and boys named Trudy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trudy, and how old are they?
19,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 25,628 Americans ever recorded as Trudy. The median Trudy alive today is 68 years old; half are between 60 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 21,824 people named Trudy (21,802 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,540 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 746 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 334 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 295 |
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 Trudy born?
The states with the most babies named Trudy are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,794 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,767 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 1,368 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 1,324 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 1,163 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,090 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,074 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 1,011 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 774 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 729 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Trudy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trudy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.7 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 Trudy 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, Trudy is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), 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 Trudy
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 Trudy and names like it
- Compare Trudy and TrudiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sTrudy peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trudy since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Trudy.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Trudy alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.