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Truth

The boy's name Truth has been in the national records since 1914, with 2,225 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,654th. About 2,200 Truths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Truth boys named Truth

Girls and boys called Truth

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 773 girls and 1,452 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 37 to 101.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 23 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
2,225
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
6
Peak year
2021
Best rank
1,300th
Rank in 2025
1,654th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
773 / 1,452

How old the living Truths are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,225 babies given the name since 1914, about 2,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Truth is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Truth is most concentrated in Florida (4.3×), Georgia (3.5×), North Carolina (2.7×), South Carolina (2.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular boys’ names the year Truth peaked:

All the names of 2021

Related names

Truth against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

Compare Truth with a name of your own

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.