Explore the Family Name Trueheart

The meaning of Trueheart

Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Treuherz: nickname (or, as a Jewish surname, an artificial name) composed of German treu ‘true, faithful’ + Herz ‘heart’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, 2nd edition, © Oxford University Press, 2022.

How common is the last name Trueheart in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census, the surname Trueheart has seen a slight decrease in its popularity from 2000 to 2010. In 2000, the name ranked 49,057 and dropped slightly to rank 49,461 in 2010, marking a change of -0.82%. Despite the decrease in rank, the number of individuals with the Trueheart surname increased from 403 in 2000 to 425 in 2010, representing a growth of 5.46%. The proportion per 100,000 people also saw a slight decline of -6.67% over the same decade.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#49,057	#49,461	-0.82%
Count	403	425	5.46%
Proportion per 100k	0.15	0.14	-6.67%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Trueheart

Regarding the ethnicity of individuals carrying the Trueheart surname, data from the Decennial U.S. Census shows some shifts between 2000 and 2010. The percentage of those identified as Black increased from 61.29% to 63.06%, while those identifying as White decreased from 34.49% to 28.47%. There was a marked increase in individuals identifying with two or more ethnicities, which jumped by 81.54%, going from 2.98% to 5.41%. The census reported no individuals of Asian/Pacific Islander or American Indian and Alaskan Native ethnicity in either year. However, there was a new appearance of Hispanic ethnicity in 2010, at 2.59%, that was not present in the 2000 data.

	2000	2010	Change
Black	61.29%	63.06%	2.89%
White	34.49%	28.47%	-17.45%
Two or More Races	2.98%	5.41%	81.54%
Hispanic	0%	2.59%	0%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0%	0%	0%