Tejas

#2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births

Peak · boys
2013 · 77 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,473
since 1977

Tejas over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Tejas has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977peak #1,851, 2013boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,88443
2024#3,89628
2023#3,34735
2022#3,15138
2021#3,36234
2020#3,57030
2019#3,20136
2018#2,63547
2017#3,19336
2016#2,93540
2015#2,45751
2014#2,66145
2013#1,85177
2012#2,51749
2011#2,28456
2010#1,94072
2009#2,05067
2008#2,46751
2007#2,50450
2006#2,69843
2005#2,39948
2004#2,10256
2003#2,12852
2002#2,09251
2001#2,05051
2000#2,86431
1999#3,59121
1998#2,78229
1997#2,75028
1996#3,83017
1995#3,10022
1994#3,91116
1993#6,2288
1992#6,6707
1991#5,9428
1990#5,3829
1989#5,6158
1988#3,35015
1987#5,4597
1986#5,3327
1985#5,7856
1984#4,9737
1983#3,88410
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1981#5,4686
1980#4,9407
1979#6,0565
1978#4,5547
1977#5,1236
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Tejas! It came in at #5,123, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Tejas is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Tejas in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Tejas
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,012 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #2,884)
  • 686 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #2,884)
  • 427 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #2,884)
Rise & fade · boys
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2013 at #1,851 (77 births)
  • Births halved by 2017, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,566
  • Highest: 1 in 24,566 boys born in 2013 were named Tejas (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.6% of all boys named Tejas (509) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s18#4,554 (1978)#5,244
1980s73#3,350 (1988)#4,978
1990s165#2,750 (1997)#4,419
2000s500#2,050 (2009)#2,335
2010s509#1,851 (2013)#2,567
2020s208#2,884 (2025)#3,368

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tejas in 1977

boys
#5,123
6 births · 1 in 273,870 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #5,123Tejas6
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 273,870 of them was named Tejas, which outranked 25.3% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tejas
  1. #4,582Zerrick7
  2. #4,582Zeyad7
  3. #4,582Zuberi7
  4. #5,123Tejas6
  5. #5,123Aamir6
  6. #5,123Aaryn6
  7. #5,123Abbas6
  8. #5,845Aashish5
  9. #5,845Abby5
  10. #5,845Abdual5

Tied with 721 names at #5,123; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →