Townes
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #1,315 for boys in 2025, 147 births
Given to boys 92.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 147 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,404since 2002
Townes 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 | #5,554 | 22 | #1,315 | 147 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #1,540 | 114 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #1,518 | 116 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #1,479 | 122 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #1,496 | 119 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,020 | 72 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2017 | — | #2,532 | 50 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,828 | 82 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,300 | 57 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,461 | 51 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,250 | 57 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,716 | 44 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,261 | 57 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,958 | 39 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,714 | 20 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,011 | 25 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | — | #8,299 | 8 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Townes! It came in at #7,055, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2005, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
Where Townes is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#864 · 1 in 6,967
- Texas#1,166 · 1 in 12,503
- California#2,255 · 1 in 38,393
Best ever in a state: #550 in Arkansas, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #864 | 5 | 1 in 6,967 |
| Texas | #1,166 | 14 | 1 in 12,503 |
| California | #2,255 | 6 | 1 in 38,393 |
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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 Townes
- 225 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,315)
- 500 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,315)
- 985 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #1,315)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2025 at #1,315 (147 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,620 boys born in 2025 were named Townes (0.01%)
- 49.9% of all boys named Townes (700) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 116 | #4,011 (2007) | #6,050 |
| 2010s | 588 | #1,828 (2016) | #2,321 |
| 2020s | 700 | #1,315 (2025) | #1,527 |
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.
Townes in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 33,320 of them was named Townes, which outranked 84.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,232Tryston58
- #2,232Yechiel58
- #2,232Zavian58
- #2,261Townes57
- #2,261Aayan57
- #2,261Alister57
- #2,261Arin57
- #2,284Ambrose56
- #2,284Anden56
- #2,284Andon56
Tied with 22 names at #2,261; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.