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Trudie

Girls' name

Spear + strength, through Trudy

Trudie has been given to 3,148 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 1950, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Trudie, 2021

1 in 484,000

Trudie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trudie: meaning, origin, and history

Spear + strength, through Trudy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trudie means

Trudie belongs to the name family reached through Trudie → Trudy → Gertrude. Its meaning is “spear + strength”.

Origin, language, and formation

Trudie is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Trudy and Gertrude.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,148 girls were recorded with the name Trudie between 1882 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1950; its best national rank was #732 in 1903.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Trudie?

Trudie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trudie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trudie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trudies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trudie was born before 1944 — so the typical Trudie is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,228
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (535).

Is Trudie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1950 (69)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#732
1903

Spellings of Trudie

Trudie is not the most common spelling — Tracie is, with 31.9% against Trudie's 3.1%.

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.

Where Trudie is used

Across 1910–2025, Trudie was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 139,958 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 20,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Trudie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trudie around the world

Where Trudie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1977–1977
    #448
    in 1977
  • Ireland
    2016–2016
    #868
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1946–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Trudie

People whose public names include Trudie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Trudie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Trudie. Linked forms have their own page here.

TrudeTrudiTrudy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Trudie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#732
1903
Peak year
1950
69 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
3,148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trudie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Trudie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Trudie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DrusillaDellLauretteBernettaGeorgettaDrucillaEugenieVernettaLedaLonnieGennieGlenn

Sibling names for Trudie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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