Texas

Where Texas comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
— Wiktionary's entry for Texas
  • place
  • 2 syllables
Texas through the years
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,096 among boys with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #2,159
    11 babies named Texas, its best rank.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #3,338.
  4. 1976
    Texas Battle born
    American actor
  5. 2017
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
Namesakes
  • Texas Battle · American actor, born 1976

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.