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.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 189,008 of them was named Townes, which outranked 41.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,806Zuleimy10
- #9,806Zuly10
- #9,806Zylee10
- #10,545Townes9
- #10,545Aadaya9
- #10,545Aafiya9
- #10,545Aalaya9
- #11,427Aada8
- #11,427Aadhvika8
- #11,427Aailyah8
Tied with 881 names at #10,545; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 22,989 of them was named Townes, which outranked 86.6% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,872Mickey80
- #1,872Raylen80
- #1,872Rick80
- #1,886Townes79
- #1,886Arie79
- #1,886Asad79
- #1,886Donnie79
- #1,901Aj78
- #1,901Avett78
- #1,901Dandre78
Tied with 14 names at #1,886; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.