Truett vs Truitt

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Truett Truitt

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 108 years in which either name was published, Truett for 89 years and Truitt for 19 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

• 1912–1957 Truett ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1960–1963 Truitt ahead
• 1964–2025 Truett ahead, apart from 3 short spells

17 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Truitts alive today are over 10; half the Truetts are over 4. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Truett Texas (4.4×), South Dakota (2.7×), Tennessee (2.6×)
• Truitt Texas (8.2×), Georgia (3.5×), Tennessee (3.1×)

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

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