Tex — #4878 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tex

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,087 babies named Tex between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tex currently holds the #4878 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tex performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 519 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Tex shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 344 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Tex in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tex in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,087 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.