Truitt
Masculine · “little trout”
Truitt is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,537 boys against 5 girls since 1880.
Truitt is a Norman French diminutive of a word for trout — truite — and the surname records a man given a fish as a byname, which medieval England did constantly.
How old is the name Truitt?
Truitt first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Truitt is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,300 people named Truitt are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Truitt most popular?
Truitt peaked in 2025, reaching #1753 nationally. Today it ranks #1753, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From truite to Truitt
The story of Truitt
Truitt is an English surname of Norman derivation that reached Maryland and Delaware early. Its use as a given name is recent and follows the wide surname-name movement of the 2010s, alongside Truett and Everett. Truitt appears in the American registers from that decade and is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
little trout
Usually read from the Old French truite, 'trout', with a diminutive — a byname of the kind medieval records are full of. A second route derives it from the Middle English trewe, 'true' or 'faithful'. Both are documented for the surname and neither is settled.
How the name formed
- truite
- Truitt
Related forms: Truett · Truite
Pronouncing Truitt
TROO-it
Two syllables, stress on the first. Truitt and Truett are said identically.
Nicknames for Truitt
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 202592 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1753reached in 2025
- Change vs 2023
- +5.7%92 in 2025, from 87
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Truitt in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Truett in English — spelling variant
- Truite in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Georgia, Tennessee.
Truitts among us
people named Truitt are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 18,566 born in 2025 was named Truitt
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Deshun test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Truitt's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Deshun climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Deshun's path sketches the road Truitt is walking now.
Truitt is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Truitt is headed
Truitt looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Truitt beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Truitt in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The little-trout byname is a genuinely characteristic piece of medieval naming.
- Tru and True are two short forms, both with real currency.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The origin is genuinely split between the fish and the word 'true'.
- Truett is an equally established spelling.
- It reads as a surname before it reads as a given name.
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Masculine · #1753 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Truitts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Truitt are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Truitt in 2025?
- Truitt ranks #1753 among US boy names in 2025, with 92 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Truitt?
- About 1 in every 18,566 US boys born in 2025 was named Truitt — 92 in all.
- Will my child share the name Truitt with classmates?
- Truitt will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Truitt
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