Truman
Truman is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 90 births. Its best rank was 248th, in 1945.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 900.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1945540 births
- Best rank
- #248in 1945
- Since 1880
- 15,835people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,835 boys have been named Truman in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1945, with 540 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1946, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Truman | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 155 | |
| 1890s | 167 | |
| 1900s | 276 | |
| 1910s | 1,590 | |
| 1920s | 2,334 | |
| 1930s | 1,891 | |
| 1940s | 2,302 | |
| 1950s | 672 | |
| 1960s | 571 | |
| 1970s | 490 | |
| 1980s | 386 | |
| 1990s | 805 | |
| 2000s | 1,662 | |
| 2010s | 1,928 | |
| 2020s | 606 |
In 1945, its biggest year
Truman was the 248th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1945 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1945.
Names that rose and fell with Truman
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harrispeak 1921
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Hoytpeak 1922
- Hollispeak 1921
- Leonpeak 1924
- Wilmerpeak 1920
- Dempseypeak 1921
- Edwinpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.