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
Grammatical form

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

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.