Trudell
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Trudell has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1939, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.
Babies named Trudell, 1953
1 in 642,000
Trudell over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Trudell over time
In 2018, Trudell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Trudell?
Trudell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1953
- 1 in 642,000
- 6 of 3,852,460 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 313,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1953
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 445,055 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Trudell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1953 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 445,055 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trudell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Trudells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Trudell was born before 1940 — so the typical Trudell is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 37.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Trudell rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1939 (8)
- Years since peak
- 86
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.3% average annual change
Spellings of Trudell
Trudell is not the most common spelling — Ardell is, with 98.0% against Trudell's 2.0%.
- Ardell98.0%2,635
- Trudell2.0%54
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Trudell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Trudell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Trudell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.