Texas
Texas was given to 19 boys in 2025, #5,179 among boys’ names; 732 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Texas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Texas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Texas is “a unisex given name transferred from the place name.” Its etymology gives the sense “friend, ally” (táyshaʔ).
Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
/ˈtɛk.səs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Texas?
#5,179 among boys’ names, 2025
Texas rose from #9,465 in 2015 to #5,179 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 11.1 per million.
25 babies in 2024, the peak
Texas peaked in 2024, when 25 babies were given it (20 boys, #5,036 among boys’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 19 | #5,179 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,455 | 20 | #5,036 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 11 | #7,675 | |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,525 | 9 | #8,905 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,082 | 16 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 15 | #5,948 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,572 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 16 | #5,743 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 16 | #5,754 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,065 | 6 | #12,007 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,465 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 17 | #5,458 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 11 | #7,490 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,286 | 13 | #6,593 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 7 | #10,653 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,815 | 9 | #8,714 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,635 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 22 | #4,520 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 12 | #7,031 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 10 | #7,931 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,582 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #8,237 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 6 | #10,227 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,385 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #9,141 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #10,385 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,570 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,712 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #6,451 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,396 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,673 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #5,369 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 6 | #3,991 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,569 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 5 | #4,209 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 9 | #2,782 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,765 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,343 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,729 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,178 | 9 | #2,616 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,943 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,302 | 11 | #2,374 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,464 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,427 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 11 | #2,280 | |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,812 | 6 | #3,500 |
| 1937 | under 5 | 7 | #3,147 | |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,155 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,766 | 7 | #3,245 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,790 | under 5 | |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,363 | 5 | #4,229 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,808 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,628 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,532 | 5 | #4,730 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 6 | #4,147 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 7 | #3,826 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,190 | |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,130 | 8 | #3,502 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 9 | #3,185 | |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,346 | 5 | #4,909 |
| 1918 | 11 | #3,006 | 8 | #3,342 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,043 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,398 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,148 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,647 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,386 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,752 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,414 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,790 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,322 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,132 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,455 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,290 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 7 | #986 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,185 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,162 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 5 | #930 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 5 | #934 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Texas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 732 Americans recorded as Texas, 32% are girls and 68% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Texas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Texas, and how old are they?
An estimated 421 Americans named Texas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Texas (156 women and girls, 362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 352 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Texas born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,741 | 3.1× |
Where Texas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Texas is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.1 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 Texas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
More about Texas and names like it
- The most given names of the 2020sTexas peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Texas since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Texas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Texas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Texas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.