Tequila
Tequila was last recorded in 2016, when 5 babies were given it; 2,134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Tequila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 35 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tequila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tequila?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,625, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
128 babies in 1977, the peak
Tequila peaked in 1977, when 128 girls were given it, #1,041 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 5 | #18,625 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,345 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,105 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,452 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,340 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,862 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,056 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,180 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,419 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,937 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 21 | #5,472 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,630 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,481 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,531 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,138 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,483 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,990 | 39.8 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,259 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,682 | 48.8 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,743 | 44.3 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,551 | 52.1 |
| 1989 | 127 | #1,246 | 68.9 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,947 | 35.4 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,041 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,585 | 44.3 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,560 | 45.3 |
| 1984 | 82 | #1,430 | 48.7 |
| 1983 | 84 | #1,410 | 50.3 |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,459 | 49.0 |
| 1981 | 107 | #1,226 | 64.1 |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,336 | 57.2 |
| 1979 | 97 | #1,300 | 60.4 |
| 1978 | 118 | #1,113 | 77.0 |
| 1977 | 128 | #1,041 | 83.5 |
| 1976 | 90 | #1,251 | 61.4 |
| 1975 | 55 | #1,725 | 37.7 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,493 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,946 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,264 | 13.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,946 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,085 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,519 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,797 | 3.6 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,593 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,655 | 9.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tequila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tequila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tequila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tequila, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,134 Americans ever recorded as Tequila. The median Tequila alive today is 41 years old; half are between 35 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,707 people named Tequila (1,702 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 30 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 639 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tequila born?
The states with the most babies named Tequila are Florida, Georgia and Illinois, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 186 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 174 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Illinois | 137 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| South Carolina | 60 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Ohio | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 55 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 54 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 53 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 53 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Tequila is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tequila is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1958 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tequila with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,045 babies since 1880, Tequila is the most given (70% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tequila
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tequila and names like it
- Compare Tequila and TequillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTequila peaked in 1977.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tequila since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Tequila.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tequila alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.