Trué
surname · Latin script
Trué is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German tre.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 42K
- CACanada≈1 in 53K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Trué itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 358 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
8,261 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled True in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishtrewe(measured from records)
- Old Englishtrīewe(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*triwwiz“honest”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*drewh₂-“steady“steady, firm”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European rootrobur“red oak”(measured from records)
From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German treu, Norwegian and Swedish trygg (“safe, secure’”), from pre-Germanic *drewh₂yos, from Proto-Indo-European *drewh₂- (“steady, firm”) (compare Irish dearbh (“sure”), Old Prussian druwis (“faith”), Ancient Greek δροόν (droón, “firm”)), extension of *dóru (“tree”). More at tree. For the semantic development, compare Latin robustus (“tough”) from robur (“red oak”).
Sources 4
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trué counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,261 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | True | 358 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 52K | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 692 | True | 115 |
| DE Germany | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 97K | listed | True | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 3 | True | 64 |
| CZ Czechia | 640 | 1 in 17K | 640 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 166 | 1 in 35K | 166 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | True | 21 |
| IS Iceland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | — | — |
8,261 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trué mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English trewe, from Old English trīewe, (Mercian) trēowe (“trusty, faithful”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiz (compare Saterland Frisian trjou (“honest”), Dutch getrouw and trouw, German tre… Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Trué have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Trué, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled true.
- Where is Trué most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trué is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trué?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,261 people named Trué in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tru%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Trué”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.