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How popular is the name True?
Births per year, rank history and how many Trues are alive today.
True (female) is a rare spelling of the girls' name Tru in England and Wales, ranked 4867th in 2025 and given to 4 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 10 babies were given the name, the 2499th most popular that year. It has declined since 2021; the 2025 figure is roughly 40% of its peak.
Across all spellings of the name, the Tru you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old - or else around 6: the name has two living generations. Half of all Trus born in England and Wales are between 7 and 23, and there are at least 170 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Tru - on average, only one in every 1,853 such rooms contains a Tru.
How many babies are named True each year?
Includes all spellings: True, Tru. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the True spelling rank?
Where does the Tru spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name True most popular?
The most popular form of the name, Tru, peaked in 2020, when 13 babies in England and Wales were given the name. The True spelling itself peaked in 2021, with 10 babies.
How many people are called True?
At least 170 people named True in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical True?
Most living Trues are between 7 and 23; the most common age is about 19. There is a second cluster around 6.
Is True becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2020 peak.