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Trudie vs Trudy

American parents have registered 25,628 Trudys since 1880, against 3,148 Trudies. Trudy is still ahead, with 25 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Trudie against Trudy, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Trudie Trudy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 142 years in which either name was published, Trudy for 101 years and Trudie for 41 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Trudie Trudy
Total US births 3,14825,628
Most in one year 69975
Babies in 2025 under 525
Estimated living today 1,40019,000
Median age today 6867
Peak year 19501947
Best rank 1,109th girls240th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,099th
First recorded 18821896
Girls / boys 3,148 / 025,623 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Trudie Trudy
England and Wales 130236
Ireland 3140
Scotland 451

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Trudie and Trudy.