Truce

Truce: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “peace agreement”
Origin: English
Say it: TROOSS · 1 syllable
Used for: Boys (97% of all uses)

Truce is an English vocabulary word from Old French truce, meaning an agreed pause in conflict. As a given name, it is a modern word-name.

English names Names meaning peace Modern names Virtue names Short names

How popular is Truce?

202471.0 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Compare with another name

Babies named Truce in 2024237

2024 rank#991 boys

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 1880299

Truce is rising: use over the last five years is 18.4× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Truce

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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Truce questions

What does the name Truce mean?

Truce means "peace agreement". It comes from English. Truce is an English vocabulary word from Old French truce, meaning an agreed pause in conflict. As a given name, it is a modern word-name.

Is Truce a boy or girl name?

Truce is mainly a boy's name in US records (97% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Truce?

237 US babies were named Truce in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Truce?

Truce is usually pronounced TROOSS.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.