Truth
Truth is given to both girls and boys: 37 girls and 101 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,968 among girls’ names and #1,662 among boys’, #2,854 among all names counting both); 2,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Truth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Truth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Truth?
#1,662 among boys’ names, 2025
Truth rose from #2,483 in 2015 to #1,662 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 26.6 to 59.1 per million.
207 babies in 2021, the peak
Truth peaked in 2021, when 207 babies were given it (145 boys, #1,303 among boys’ names). The 138 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,968 | 101 | #1,662 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,171 | 120 | #1,500 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,267 | 121 | #1,487 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,683 | 138 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 62 | #2,782 | 145 | #1,303 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,821 | 120 | #1,450 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,888 | 102 | #1,622 |
| 2018 | 42 | #3,667 | 79 | #1,898 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,472 | 61 | #2,214 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,776 | 52 | #2,473 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,584 | 51 | #2,483 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,441 | 35 | #3,221 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,532 | 39 | #2,947 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,117 | 31 | #3,519 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,546 | 30 | #3,593 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,366 | 31 | #3,519 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,073 | 27 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,081 | 24 | #4,251 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,071 | 30 | #3,584 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,122 | 17 | #5,277 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,300 | 13 | #6,187 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,219 | 15 | #5,462 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,268 | 9 | #7,776 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,247 | 18 | #4,474 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,412 | 8 | #8,270 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,469 | 11 | #6,274 |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,303 | 5 | #11,495 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,014 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,456 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #10,153 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #6,700 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,919 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,718 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,794 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,926 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,525 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,141 | under 5 |
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 Truth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,225 Americans recorded as Truth, 35% are girls and 65% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Truth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Truth, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,225 Americans ever recorded as Truth. The median Truth alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 999 people named Truth (404 women and girls, 595 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 469 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,690 |
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 Truth born?
The states with the most babies named Truth are Texas, Georgia and North Carolina, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #2,060 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 11 | #848 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,021 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 8 | #896 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,813 | 0.9× |
| South Carolina | 6 | #734 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,456 | 0.4× |
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 Truth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Truth
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 Truth and names like it
- Compare Truth and KoiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTruth peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Truth since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Truth.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Truth alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.