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Trueman

Boys' name

Variant of Truman

Trueman has been given to 274 babies in the U.S. since 1907. 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 1923, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Trueman, 2009

1 in 764,000

Trueman over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trueman: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Truman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trueman means

Trueman is a variant of Truman.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trueman is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɹu.mən/ for Trueman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Trueman → Truman. The family’s meaning is “trusty man”, recorded in the naming reference for Truman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Truman.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 274 boys were recorded with the name Trueman between 1907 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,528 in 1907.

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.

How common is Trueman?

Trueman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trueman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trueman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Truemans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trueman was born before 1926 — so the typical Trueman is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Trueman 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 1923 (17)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,528
1907

Spellings of Trueman

Trueman is not the most common spelling — Thurman is, with 36.0% against Trueman's 0.60%.

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 Trueman is used

Across 1910–2025, Trueman was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Trueman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Trueman around the world

Where Trueman 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.

  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trueman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,528
1907
Peak year
1923
17 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
274
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trueman

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

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Sibling names for Trueman

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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