Texas

Where Texas comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
— Wiktionary's entry for Texas
  • place
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,096 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #2,159
    11 babies named Texas — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,338.
  4. 1976
    Texas Battle born
    American actor
  5. 2017
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
Namesakes
  • Texas Battle · American actor, born 1976

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.