Truly
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 10 babies a year in England and Wales.
Truly by the numbers
In 2025, 10 babies in England and Wales were named Truly. In the US, 45 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 50 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Truly
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Truly. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Trudystrong spear; a form of Gertrude3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tillymighty in battle; diminutive of Matilda264 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tracyfrom Thrace; path or road138 in the US (2017)
- Truthfidelity, honesty, integrity92 in the US (2017)
- Tullypeaceful people; from tulach meaning hill11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tellyfar-shining; a form of Telemachus or similar9 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Truly
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