True — #983 US boys' name

What the Data Says About True

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,266 babies named True between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, True currently holds the #983 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 228 babies received it in a single year. True is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,025 additional births since 1904.

Decade-level aggregation shows that True performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 999 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, True shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 179 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list True in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for True 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 2,266 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.