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
- Peak · boys
- 1939 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 497since 1918
Texas 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 | — | #5,045 | 19 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,173 | 11 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,540 | 16 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,526 | 16 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | — | #8,744 | 8 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,252 | 17 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #6,306 | 13 |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,395 | 22 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #7,427 | 10 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | — | ||
| 2003 | — | — | ||
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | — | ||
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | — | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | — | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | — | ||
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| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
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| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,606 | 9 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #3,338 | 5 | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #2,467 | 9 |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | #2,268 | 11 |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,159 | 11 | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | — | #2,905 | 7 | |
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | #2,973 | 7 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 | #3,776 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,319 | 9 | — | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | #1,213 | 6 | — | |
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | #1,025 | 7 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 | — | |
| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1886 | #897 | 7 | — | |
| 1885 | #1,047 | 5 | — | |
| 1884 | #1,024 | 5 | — | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | #830 | 5 | — | |
| 1880 | #836 | 5 | — | |
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.
See more about Texas
- 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)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1939 at #2,159 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1945, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 22.9% of all boys named Texas (114) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2016, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | #3,096 (1918) | #3,096 |
| 1920s | 46 | #2,986 (1921) | #3,686 |
| 1930s | 36 | #2,159 (1939) | #2,998 |
| 1940s | 70 | #2,268 (1942) | #2,820 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,734 (1952) | #3,734 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,601 (1964) | #3,825 |
| 1970s | 16 | #4,724 (1970) | #4,836 |
| 1980s | 11 | #5,785 (1985) | #6,253 |
| 1990s | 11 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,563 |
| 2000s | 79 | #4,395 (2008) | #7,061 |
| 2010s | 114 | #5,252 (2014) | #7,405 |
| 2020s | 90 | #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 1918
Top girls' names in 1918
Top boys' names in 1918
More about 1918
girls
1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 105,239 of them was named Texas, which outranked 49.5% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,674Zera12
- #2,674Zofia12
- #2,674Zoila12
- #2,822Texas11
- #2,822Ader11
- #2,822Adine11
- #2,822Adra11
- #3,024Adalene10
- #3,024Adina10
- #3,024Adria10
Tied with 201 names at #2,822; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
- ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
- ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
- ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
- ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 126,685 of them was named Texas, which outranked 35.7% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,882Woodfin9
- #2,882Worthington9
- #2,882Zolton9
- #3,096Texas8
- #3,096Abb8
- #3,096Adren8
- #3,096Agustus8
- #3,368Acel7
- #3,368Achilles7
- #3,368Ada7
Tied with 271 names at #3,096; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.