Texas
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
Given to boys 67.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1939 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 497since 1918
Texas over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,540 | 16 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,526 | 16 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,252 | 17 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
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| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
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| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
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| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #2,467 | 9 |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | #2,268 | 11 |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,159 | 11 | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
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| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 | — | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | #1,025 | 7 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1886 | #897 | 7 | — | |
| 1885 | #1,047 | 5 | — | |
| 1884 | #1,024 | 5 | — | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | #830 | 5 | — | |
| 1880 | #836 | 5 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Texas! It came in at #3,096, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Texas is popular in 1939
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Texas#813 · 1 in 11,773
Best ever in a state: #744 in Texas, 1924.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #813 | 5 | 1 in 11,773 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Texas
- 155 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #5,045)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,045)
- 3,699 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #5,045)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1939 at #2,159 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 86,144 boys born in 2024 were named Texas (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,159 in 1939, was only 1 in 100,623 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all boys named Texas (114) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #3,096 (1918) | #3,096 |
| 1920s | 46 | #2,986 (1921) | #3,686 |
| 1930s | 36 | #2,159 (1939) | #2,998 |
| 1940s | 70 | #2,268 (1942) | #2,820 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,734 (1952) | #3,734 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,825 |
| 1970s | 16 | #4,724 (1970) | #4,836 |
| 1980s | 11 | #5,785 (1985) | #6,253 |
| 1990s | 11 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,563 |
| 2000s | 79 | #4,395 (2008) | #7,061 |
| 2010s | 114 | #5,252 (2014) | #7,405 |
| 2020s | 90 | #4,890 (2024) | #6,131 |
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.
Texas in 1939
Top boys' names in 1939
More about 1939
boys
1,106,852 boys got a published name in 1939; 1 in 100,623 of them was named Texas, which outranked 45.6% of the 3,968 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,050Winthrop12
- #2,050Zeb12
- #2,050Zenas12
- #2,159Texas11
- #2,159Agapito11
- #2,159Alben11
- #2,159Alcide11
- #2,288Addie10
- #2,288Alpha10
- #2,288Ambrosio10
Tied with 128 names at #2,159; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.