Tex
Tex was given to 33 boys in 2025, #3,501 among boys’ names; 2,131 Americans have been recorded with it since 1890 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Tex and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 17 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tex by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tex?
#3,501 among boys’ names, 2025
Tex rose from #6,632 in 2015 to #3,501 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 19.3 per million.
67 babies in 1940, the peak
Tex peaked in 1940, when 67 boys were given it, #757 among boys’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #3,501 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,035 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,217 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,549 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,913 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,522 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,642 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,717 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 15 | #6,034 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,730 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,632 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,530 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,489 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,605 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,502 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,713 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,241 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,384 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,194 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,536 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,581 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,078 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,737 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,521 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,236 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,657 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,384 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,774 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,680 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,320 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,024 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,095 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,740 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #8,023 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,640 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,481 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,510 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,213 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,272 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,174 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,466 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,309 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,667 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,813 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #3,075 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,222 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,583 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,027 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,927 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,954 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,261 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,296 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 19 | #1,890 | 10.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,925 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,221 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 18 | #1,910 | 9.7 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,032 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,523 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,799 | 10.2 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,229 | 7.1 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,966 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 21 | #1,799 | 9.8 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,251 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,431 | 14.4 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,602 | 11.8 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,365 | 15.5 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,403 | 14.7 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,452 | 14.2 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,318 | 17.0 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,326 | 17.0 |
| 1950 | 50 | #985 | 27.9 |
| 1949 | 42 | #1,093 | 23.7 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,123 | 23.4 |
| 1947 | 52 | #995 | 28.4 |
| 1946 | 66 | #811 | 40.6 |
| 1945 | 49 | #926 | 36.4 |
| 1944 | 56 | #852 | 41.1 |
| 1943 | 48 | #979 | 33.6 |
| 1942 | 49 | #957 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 49 | #915 | 39.9 |
| 1940 | 67 | #757 | 57.8 |
| 1939 | 43 | #973 | 38.8 |
| 1938 | 64 | #768 | 57.7 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,230 | 28.1 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,538 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,245 | 28.8 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,354 | 25.2 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,401 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,841 | 16.3 |
| 1931 | 29 | #1,301 | 27.9 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,529 | 21.9 |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,335 | 27.0 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,563 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,462 | 24.0 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,972 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,672 | 19.7 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,527 | 23.0 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,584 | 21.9 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,757 | 19.3 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,892 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,441 | 12.2 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,137 | 15.3 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,152 | 14.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,710 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,141 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,166 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,624 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,214 | 9.8 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,970 | 22.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,054 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,070 | 51.1 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,147 | 45.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tex a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tex has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 112 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tex: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tex, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 51% of the 2,131 Americans ever recorded as Tex. The median Tex alive today is 58 years old; half are between 17 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 1,172 people named Tex (37 women and girls, 1,135 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 161 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 352 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 89 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 97 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 239 |
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 Tex born?
The states with the most babies named Tex are Texas, North Carolina and West Virginia, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 354 | #1,740 | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| West Virginia | 39 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Kentucky | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tex is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tex is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 boys’ 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 Tex with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tex
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1890-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Benny | 49,144 |
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 Tex and names like it
- Compare Tex and BennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sTex peaked in 1940.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tex since 1910.
- The top names of 1940The year the most babies were named Tex.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tex alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.