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 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kentucky#673 · 1 in 3,962
- Oklahoma#701 · 1 in 3,502
- Louisiana#819 · 1 in 4,086
- Texas#953 · 1 in 7,096
- North Carolina#1,121 · 1 in 8,454
Best ever in a state: #550 in Arkansas, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #673 | 5 | 1 in 3,962 |
| Oklahoma | #701 | 5 | 1 in 3,502 |
| Louisiana | #819 | 5 | 1 in 4,086 |
| Texas | #953 | 25 | 1 in 7,096 |
| North Carolina | #1,121 | 6 | 1 in 8,454 |
| California | #1,721 | 9 | 1 in 19,986 |
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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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 89,143 of them was named Townes, which outranked 63.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,169Zuleika19
- #6,169Zunaisha19
- #6,169Zyonna19
- #6,409Townes18
- #6,409Adelyna18
- #6,409Aime18
- #6,409Airis18
- #6,680Aadhira17
- #6,680Aaliah17
- #6,680Aamira17
Tied with 270 names at #6,409; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,746 of them was named Townes, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,508Roan117
- #1,508Rylee117
- #1,508Westen117
- #1,518Townes116
- #1,518Arrow116
- #1,518Edson116
- #1,518Jamarion116
- #1,530Cadence115
- #1,530Craig115
- #1,530Koe115
Tied with 11 names at #1,518; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.