Truth
Masculine · “faithfulness”
Truth is given to both — 1,452 boys and 773 girls since 1880. See Truth as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Truth is an old English word about loyalty before it is about facts — treowth meant faithfulness, and it is the same word as troth, which people still plight.
How old is the name Truth?
Truth first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Truth is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Truth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Truth most popular?
Truth peaked in 2021, reaching #1300 nationally. Today it ranks #1654, 354 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From treowe to Truth
The story of Truth
Virtue names have a long English history through the Puritan tradition, and Sojourner Truth chose the surname herself in 1843, in one of the most deliberate acts of self-naming in American history. Abstract word-names rose again from the 2000s, and Truth appears in the American registers in that period for both sexes.
Meaning
faithfulness; what is true
From the Old English treowth, 'faithfulness' or 'fidelity', built on treowe, 'faithful' — the root also behind 'true' and 'trust'. The sense of factual accuracy is a later development; the older meaning is loyalty, preserved in 'betrothed' and 'plight one's troth'.
How the name formed
- treowe
- treowth
- truth
- Truth
Related forms: Troth · Treue
Pronouncing Truth
TROOTH
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English noun.
Nicknames for Truth
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
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 2021145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1300reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- −15.8%101 in 2025, from 120
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.
Truth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Troth in English — related form
- Treue in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Truths among us
people named Truth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 16,912 born in 2025 was named Truth
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 Mahmoud test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Truth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mahmoud climbed just as high around 1995, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mahmoud's path sketches the road Truth is walking now.
Truth sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Truth is headed
Truth should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Truth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Truth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The shift from faithfulness to factual accuracy is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- Sojourner Truth's self-naming is one of the great American acts of nomenclature.
- One syllable, firm, and never mispronounced.
- It is an ordinary English noun and never reads as purely a name.
- It carries an expectation the bearer has no control over.
- It is thoroughly unisex and very new as a given name.
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Truth
Masculine · #1654 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Truths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Truth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Truth in 2025?
- Truth ranks #1654 among US boy names in 2025, with 101 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Truth?
- About 1 in every 16,912 US boys born in 2025 was named Truth — 101 in all.
- Will my child share the name Truth with classmates?
- Truth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Truth
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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