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

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Peak · boys
1939 · 11 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
497
since 1918

Texas over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201939peak #830, 1881peak #2,159, 1939girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#5,04519
2024#15,2935#4,89020
2023—#7,28911
2022#15,3065#8,3009
2021#13,4646#5,56216
2020—#5,69915
2019—#7,17311
2018—#5,54016
2017—#5,52616
2016#14,3316#10,7446
2015—#8,7448
2014—#5,25217
2013—#7,02611
2012#16,8695#6,30613
2011—#9,6007
2010#13,4487#8,1399
2009—#7,23611
2008—#4,39522
2007—#6,62212
2006—#7,42710
2005—#7,09610
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2001—#7,5368
2000—#9,1126
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1998#14,1225—
1997—#8,1106
1996—#9,0155
1995#13,3865—
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1986—#6,7215
1985—#5,7856
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1975—#4,7976
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1972—#4,9865
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1970—#4,7245
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1964—#3,6016
1963—#4,0485
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1952—#3,7345
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1949—#2,6069
1948—#2,6089
1947—#3,0967
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1945—#3,3385
1944#4,5745#2,4679
1943—#2,7328
1942#4,6225#2,26811
1941—#3,1336
1940—#3,1306
1939—#2,15911
1938#3,4507#3,1756
1937—#2,9057
1936——
1935#3,7426—
1934#3,4497#2,9737
1933#4,2185—
1932#3,9016#3,7765
1931#3,4977—
1930#3,3458—
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1927#4,8055#4,2105
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1925—#3,7416
1924—#3,5057
1923—#3,8226
1922#2,95811#3,2528
1921—#2,9869
1920#3,9577#4,2865
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1918#2,82211#3,0968
1917#3,7137—
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First appearance
1918

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
Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedHITexas: #813 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 11,773 boysTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Texas, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Texas#813 · 1 in 11,773

Best ever in a state: #744 in Texas, 1924.

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Texas#81351 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
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
21 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1939 at #2,159 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1945, 6 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 86,144
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 22.9% of all boys named Texas (114) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2017
  • Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s8#3,096 (1918)#3,096
1920s46#2,986 (1921)#3,686
1930s36#2,159 (1939)#2,998
1940s70#2,268 (1942)#2,820
1950s5#3,734 (1952)#3,734
1960s11#3,601 (1964)#3,825
1970s16#4,724 (1970)#4,836
1980s11#5,785 (1985)#6,253
1990s11#8,110 (1997)#8,563
2000s79#4,395 (2008)#7,061
2010s114#5,252 (2014)#7,405
2020s90#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

boys
#2,159
11 births · 1 in 100,623 boys

Top boys' names in 1939

  1. #1Robert59,666
  2. #2James59,636
  3. #3John51,025
  4. #4William42,071
  5. #5Richard35,386
  6. #6Charles30,789
  7. #7David25,360
  8. #8Donald24,056
  9. #9Thomas22,129
  10. #10Ronald19,837
  11. #2,159Texas11
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).

Ranked beside Texas
  1. #2,050Winthrop12
  2. #2,050Zeb12
  3. #2,050Zenas12
  4. #2,159Texas11
  5. #2,159Agapito11
  6. #2,159Alben11
  7. #2,159Alcide11
  8. #2,288Addie10
  9. #2,288Alpha10
  10. #2,288Ambrosio10

Tied with 128 names at #2,159; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1938
Risers
  1. ↑ 463Alfonzo#1,439 → #976
  2. ↑ 447Rod#1,439 → #992
  3. ↑ 443Estel#1,397 → #954
  4. ↑ 422Cameron#1,364 → #942
  5. ↑ 421Turner#1,337 → #916
Fallers
  1. ↓ 518Gonzalo#779 → #1,297
  2. ↓ 497Judge#992 → #1,489
  3. ↓ 396Melville#963 → #1,359
  4. ↓ 355Agustin#883 → #1,238
  5. ↓ 351Antone#921 → #1,272

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

See the top 100 for 1939 →