True
True is given to both girls and boys: 158 girls and 211 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,387 among girls’ names and #1,050 among boys’, #1,459 among all names counting both); 4,665 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named True every year since 2023.
An estimated 4,370 Americans named True and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of True by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is True?
#1,050 among boys’ names, 2025
True rose from #2,325 in 2015 to #1,050 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.03 to 0.12 per 1,000.
437 babies in 2024, the peak
True peaked in 2024, when 437 babies were given it (230 boys, #982 among boys’ names). The 369 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 84% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,387 | 211 | #1,050 |
| 2024 | 207 | #1,163 | 230 | #982 |
| 2023 | 205 | #1,173 | 224 | #984 |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,176 | 190 | #1,120 |
| 2021 | 218 | #1,134 | 192 | #1,095 |
| 2020 | 170 | #1,302 | 165 | #1,170 |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,507 | 151 | #1,248 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,272 | 96 | #1,669 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,370 | 60 | #2,236 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,524 | 45 | #2,722 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,982 | 57 | #2,325 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,322 | 62 | #2,200 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,694 | 50 | #2,488 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,521 | 53 | #2,410 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,778 | 28 | #3,784 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,963 | 41 | #2,910 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,469 | 35 | #3,267 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,334 | 40 | #2,999 |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,935 | 45 | #2,716 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,537 | 19 | #4,842 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,101 | 26 | #3,698 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,537 | 23 | #3,987 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,037 | 23 | #3,827 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,413 | 16 | #4,889 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,288 | 33 | #2,852 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,689 | 26 | #3,288 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,206 | 26 | #3,170 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,064 | 26 | #3,083 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,770 | 16 | #4,225 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,546 | 17 | #4,002 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,836 | 19 | #3,543 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,579 | 20 | #3,453 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,346 | 12 | #4,970 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,246 | 5 | #9,717 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 8 | #6,474 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,136 | 5 | #9,394 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,139 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,202 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #8,061 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,348 | 6 | #6,269 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,444 | 7 | #5,585 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #7,224 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #7,236 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #5,056 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,428 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,917 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,650 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,704 | |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,389 | 6 | #3,494 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,167 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,749 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,943 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,840 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,714 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,910 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,015 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,719 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,128 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,777 | |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,341 | 10 | #2,920 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,402 | 6 | #4,311 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 10 | #2,921 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,957 | 5 | #4,899 |
| 1921 | 6 | #5,047 | 5 | #4,917 |
| 1920 | under 5 | 10 | #2,944 | |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,498 | 8 | #3,367 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,761 | 11 | #2,685 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,254 | 8 | #3,190 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,888 | 5 | #4,469 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,764 | 5 | #4,339 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 7 | #2,886 | |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,660 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,906 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,145 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 5 | #1,277 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 7 | #969 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 5 | #1,083 |
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 True a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,665 Americans recorded as True, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named True: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named True, and how old are they?
4,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 4,665 Americans ever recorded as True. The median True alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 2,115 people named True (1,001 women and girls, 1,114 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,111 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 831 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,300 |
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 True born?
The states with the most babies named True are Texas, Georgia and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #1,037 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 28 | #649 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 24 | #1,186 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #841 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 18 | #712 | 0.5× |
| California | 17 | #1,675 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 16 | #931 | 0.6× |
| New York | 15 | #1,395 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #918 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 14 | #788 | 0.7× |
Where True is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, True is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 1.5 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 True 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, True is the second most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 369 of their 1,168 babies (32%), again the second 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 True
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 True and names like it
- Compare True and TruBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTrue peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named True since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named True.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named True alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.