Entry № 10762 · English origin

True True — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TROO /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Faithful, real, honest"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "faithful, real, honest".

True comes from the Old English trēowe, meaning "faithful" or "honest." Used as a given name since the 2000s.

Faithful, real, honest — a English name.

The name in its native script.

True
Transliteration
True
Pronunciation
/ truː /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where True stands.

True does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Trues before her.

Real people
True Thompson
Daughter of Khloé Kardashian.
born 2018
In fiction

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Names connected to True.

The number behind True.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of True reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.