True

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about True: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

1registrar recorded it
12times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#2499highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in True's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
2005	#4798
2019	#3151
2020	#3117
2021	#2499
2022	#4645
2023	#3218
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 8 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #2499 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

True appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 8 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 46 births with the name.

True across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

True's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3126 (1996)	#2499 (2021)	#4843 (2024)	8 of 29	46 (1996–2024)	10 (2021)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#3048 (2022)	#5119 (2024)	4 of 6	16 (2019–2024)	6 (2022)

True by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with True in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	7	1 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	32	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

True appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2499 in England and Wales in 2021.

True's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 8 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,499, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 10 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
6 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
13 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period10 to 19 years missing →
#4,843position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
10births registered in its largest year, 2021Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Trudie · #868, 22y
Trudy · #263, 50y
Truls · #91, 81y
Truly · #2000, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Evelyn-Grace · #2499, 12y
Harlow-Rose · #2499, 10y
Harper-Louise · #2499, 10y
Harper-May · #2499, 10y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Estee · #2499, 18y
Evelynne · #2499, 18y
Jenelle · #2499, 20y
Lou · #2499, 16y

True and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed True without appearing here.

True moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4798 and #1165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Geraldine Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4798 and #2438 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4798 and #292 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #5493.

Moved ahead of True

Selma Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #1082.
Liv Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3126 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #4798 and #1796.
Luca Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #3598 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3318.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3151 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1939.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2499 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

True

True at a glance

What stands out in True's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

True across 2 official records

True by decade in England and Wales · Girls

True appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

True and the names beside it

True moved ahead of

Moved ahead of True

True at a glance

What stands out in True's record

True across 2 official records

True by decade in England and Wales · Girls

True appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

True and the names beside it

True moved ahead of

Moved ahead of True