girls:
25.6k births since 1896
#886 (85th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1946
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
25.6k births since 1896
#1583 (80th percentile)
The name Trudy is the #1,583 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,574 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 79.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #886 (84.5% percentile) for all time with 25,569 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1946.
Trudy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1946 for boys). Birth data for Trudy is available in 126 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (126 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Trudy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Trudy reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 65.2% percentile (ranked #239) with 536 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 552 births per million (ranked 64.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Trudy ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Trudy reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #585) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1946.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Trudy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Trudy is pronounced as TRUE-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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