Truly
Truly was given to 61 girls in 2025, #2,816 among girls’ names; 1,097 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Truly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Truly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Truly?
#2,816 among girls’ names, 2025
Truly rose from #3,206 in 2015 to #2,816 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 29.1 to 38.0 per million.
61 babies in 2025, the peak
Truly peaked in 2025, when 61 girls were given it, #2,816 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 53 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,816 | 38.0 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,076 | 32.7 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,579 | 27.4 |
| 2022 | 59 | #2,891 | 36.0 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,999 | 34.1 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,959 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,038 | 32.2 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,666 | 24.7 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,431 | 26.6 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,463 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,206 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,267 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,772 | 23.4 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,377 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,530 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,854 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,315 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,080 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,374 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,844 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,930 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,232 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,558 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,192 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,963 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,061 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,322 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,348 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,730 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,632 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,050 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,286 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,711 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,103 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,395 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,217 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,455 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,094 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,519 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,821 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,158 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,054 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,583 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 7 | #7,031 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,577 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,781 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,266 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,464 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,702 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,155 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,322 | 3.6 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,207 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,944 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,218 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,805 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,510 | 5.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,399 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,793 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,761 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,762 | 5.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,546 | 5.5 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,895 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Truly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Truly has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Truly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Truly, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,097 Americans ever recorded as Truly. The median Truly alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Truly (716 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 718 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 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 60 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 655 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,430 babies since 1880, Truly is the second most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 78 babies (78%), the most given that year.
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 Truly
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 Truly and names like it
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