Trula
Trula was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 2,045 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Trula?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,223, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1923, the peak
Trula peaked in 1923, when 63 girls were given it, #927 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #12,223 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,971 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,686 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,235 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,133 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,226 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,340 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,394 | 5.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,618 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,956 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 7 | #5,780 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,618 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,589 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,245 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,781 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,161 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,454 | 11.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,075 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,296 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,482 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,276 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,943 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,924 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,496 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,107 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,952 | 14.6 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,875 | 15.8 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,665 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,598 | 20.3 |
| 1946 | 36 | #1,478 | 22.9 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,288 | 29.8 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,541 | 21.9 |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,420 | 25.1 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,365 | 26.7 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,382 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,291 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,399 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,217 | 33.5 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,385 | 27.3 |
| 1936 | 27 | #1,441 | 26.0 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,262 | 31.5 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,203 | 34.5 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,121 | 39.7 |
| 1932 | 53 | #978 | 49.7 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,242 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,459 | 25.8 |
| 1929 | 47 | #1,077 | 42.1 |
| 1928 | 52 | #1,050 | 45.1 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,158 | 37.7 |
| 1926 | 49 | #1,077 | 41.3 |
| 1925 | 58 | #986 | 47.6 |
| 1924 | 53 | #1,081 | 42.4 |
| 1923 | 63 | #927 | 52.2 |
| 1922 | 46 | #1,143 | 38.3 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,114 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 53 | #1,028 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 55 | #966 | 48.7 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,057 | 41.5 |
| 1917 | 44 | #1,077 | 40.7 |
| 1916 | 50 | #976 | 47.9 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,136 | 37.6 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,145 | 38.1 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,147 | 38.4 |
| 1912 | 33 | #888 | 59.1 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,365 | 31.1 |
| 1910 | 20 | #995 | 50.4 |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,097 | 43.2 |
| 1908 | 17 | #1,000 | 50.9 |
| 1907 | 18 | #922 | 56.5 |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,150 | 40.6 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,405 | 30.9 |
| 1904 | 15 | #962 | 54.5 |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,134 | 42.0 |
| 1902 | 14 | #966 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 13 | #958 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,912 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,173 | 38.6 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,951 | 19.3 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,533 | 25.6 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,804 | 21.0 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,198 | 38.5 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,420 | 28.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Trula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Trula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Trula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trula, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Trula and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (26% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 691 people named Trula (691 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 719 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Trula born?
The states with the most babies named Trula are Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 486 | not ranked | 9.9× |
| Virginia | 204 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| North Carolina | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Trula is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trula is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 9.9 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 Trula 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,430 babies since 1880, Trula is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 none of their 78 babies recorded by SSA was a Trula (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 Trula
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 Trula and names like it
- Compare Trula and TrulyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTrula peaked in 1923.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trula since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Trula.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Trula alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.