Trust
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɹʌst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Trust is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Devon. nickname from Middle English trust, trist ‘trustworthy, faithful, loyal’. Compare Trusty . Further early bearers may perhaps be found at Trist .
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Devon. nickname from Middle English trust, trist ‘trustworthy, faithful, loyal’. Compare Trusty . Further early bearers may perhaps be found at Trist .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trust 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 232 | Trust | 45 |
| IN India | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 4 | Trust | 20 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 1 | — | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Trust | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 1 | Trust | 23 |
| US United States | 377 | 1 in 882K | 613 | Trust | 118 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Trust | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 120 | 1 in 49K | 120 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | — | — |
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: SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wolfgang Trustb. 1926DEGerman sculptor (1926-1986)
- Martin Trustb. 1934USAmerican business person
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 613 | #38,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 507 | #40,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 377 | #54,637 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 232 | #19,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 228 | #28,199 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 120 | #4,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 92 | #28,199 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 26 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trust mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Devon. nickname from Middle English trust, trist ‘trustworthy, faithful, loyal’. Compare Trusty . Further early bearers may perhaps be found at Trist . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Trust?
- A machine transcription gives /tɹʌst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Trust have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Trust in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trust.
- How common is the name Trust?
- In the United States, the national register counted 377 people named Trust in 2010, about 1 in 882 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trustThe 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, “Trust”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.