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The first name 
Truman

Truman is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Truman is a well-known but special name!

Truman is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1018 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,017 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 9,896 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Truman. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Truman

Truman -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Truman annualy. This means that there have been boys named Truman who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Truman have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Truman even more than any other time: in 1945, it holds its present record at rank #236 in the list of the most popular boys' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Truman was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Truman 2022 among young parents?

Truman has never been ranked higher than #236. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,344 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 123 boys named Truman were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Truman were born, there have been 44 newborns who received this name.

Truman -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Truman, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Truman. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Truman living in one state or another. If your name is Truman and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arkansas, which has the most people named Truman relative to the population, you still have to ask 3,650 men and boys their names before you hear Truman as an answer just once.

Truman has 6 letters 
and begins with a T

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.

With six letters, the name Truman is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Truman

If your name is Truman and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Truman

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Truman, you can simply say:

Tiger

Rocket

Unicorn

Mouse

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Truman is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Truman in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Truman

Truman

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Truman

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Truman is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

T
R
U
M
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Truman

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

T
R
U
M
A
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Truman sounds like this: