The Truitt surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,557 people carried this name — #3,712 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,900 people counted. That is up 3% from 9,257 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Truitt surname

Variant of Trewhitt.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Truitt» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

26 families named Truitt, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 125 people lived in those households, 4.8 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 2 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Maryland 22
Connecticut 1
Virginia 1
North Carolina 1
South Carolina 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 266 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Truitt in American newspapers,
1905.

Newspaper page from Orleans County Monitor carrying the name Truitt
Orleans County Monitor 1905-02-13
Newspaper page from The Columbia Herald carrying the name Truitt
The Columbia Herald 1905-02-17
Newspaper page from Orleans County Monitor carrying the name Truitt
Orleans County Monitor 1905-02-20

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 49,021 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Truitt in Australian newspapers,
1900s–1940s.

87 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Truitt. The most, 56, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 2.2 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 64
Queensland 8
Victoria 4
ACT (Canberra) 2
Western Australia 2
Northern Territory 1
South Australia 1
Tasmania 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Truitt.

Who carried it

People named Truitt,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Anna Augusta Truitt
    Anna Augusta Truitt 1837–1920 · writer
  • R. V. Truitt
    R. V. Truitt 1890–1991 · writer
  • George Truitt 1756–1818 · politician
  • Bess Truitt 1884–1972 · writer
  • Dick Truitt 1904–1978 · rodeo rider
  • Marian Barkley 1908–1996

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Truitt,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States533 records

533 records of the Truitt name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 337
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 130
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 30
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 20
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 9
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
  • Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 2
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Clifford W. Truitt

    Born 1908 in Delaware. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Dix, New Jersey; checker from Sussex County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1969, buried at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Bear, Delaware.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Jerry Bob Truitt

    Born 1947; from Novinger, Missouri. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record John Truitt

    Arrived at New York in 1851 aboard the Forest King from Liverpool, aged 16; laborer. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain)

Showing 3 of 533 records for Truitt in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

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Surnames next to Truitt.

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