Tex

Where Tex comes from

Tex hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #994 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Tex Ritter born
    American country musician
  3. 1907
    Tex Gibbons born
    basketball player
  4. 1940
    Peak, #751
    67 babies named Tex — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1951
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,295.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tex Ritter · American country musician, 1905–1974
  • Tex Gibbons · basketball player, 1907–1984
  • Tex Winter · American basketball coach, 1922–2018
  • Tex Williams · American musician, 1917–1985
  • Tex Rickard · American sports promoter, 1870–1929

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.