Titus
Titus was given to 910 boys in 2025, #358 among boys’ names; 26,823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,200 Americans named Titus and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Titus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Titus mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Titus is “a male given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the senses “honorable” (either) and “strong; of the giants” (or).
Borrowed from Latin Titus, a Roman and Sabine praenomen meaning either “honorable” or “strong; of the giants”.
/ˈtaɪtəs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Titus?
#358 among boys’ names, 2025
Titus fell from #280 in 2015 to #358 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.69 to 0.53 per 1,000.
1,325 babies in 2015, the peak
Titus peaked in 2015, when 1,325 boys were given it, #280 among boys’ names. The 910 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 910 | #358 | 0.53 |
| 2024 | 848 | #383 | 0.49 |
| 2023 | 869 | #374 | 0.51 |
| 2022 | 910 | #362 | 0.52 |
| 2021 | 914 | #356 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 944 | #340 | 0.55 |
| 2019 | 1,045 | #319 | 0.58 |
| 2018 | 1,100 | #309 | 0.61 |
| 2017 | 1,182 | #298 | 0.64 |
| 2016 | 1,296 | #282 | 0.68 |
Every recorded year (130)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,325 | #280 | 0.69 |
| 2014 | 1,278 | #282 | 0.67 |
| 2013 | 1,067 | #316 | 0.56 |
| 2012 | 855 | #358 | 0.45 |
| 2011 | 825 | #362 | 0.43 |
| 2010 | 714 | #397 | 0.37 |
| 2009 | 643 | #436 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 639 | #442 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 536 | #496 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 462 | #548 | 0.22 |
| 2005 | 454 | #536 | 0.23 |
| 2004 | 399 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 344 | #608 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 343 | #596 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 341 | #587 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 293 | #628 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 240 | #699 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 196 | #784 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 161 | #868 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 158 | #871 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 148 | #908 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 145 | #906 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 120 | #994 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 163 | #826 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 132 | #915 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 138 | #872 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 145 | #826 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 155 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 127 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 131 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 134 | #767 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 156 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 164 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 160 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 158 | #688 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 122 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 133 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 126 | #756 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 143 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1976 | 120 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 112 | #787 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 118 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 81 | #892 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 84 | #884 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 83 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 69 | #978 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 60 | #999 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,045 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 54 | #991 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 64 | #911 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 83 | #813 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 76 | #880 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 72 | #885 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 65 | #945 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 62 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 72 | #895 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,079 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 45 | #1,160 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,127 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,188 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,367 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 49 | #1,078 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,277 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,578 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,454 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,286 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,430 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 26 | #1,456 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,476 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,502 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,530 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,476 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,337 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,532 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,297 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,455 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,278 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,215 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,359 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,291 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 38 | #1,164 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,456 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 27 | #1,466 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 43 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,228 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 34 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,601 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 14 | #922 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 12 | #977 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,663 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 8 | #993 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 12 | #735 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,130 | 0.05 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,111 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 8 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,241 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,094 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,025 | 0.05 |
| 1882 | 7 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 6 | #901 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Titus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Titus has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 130 years of records.
Girls and boys named Titus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Titus, and how old are they?
25,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 26,823 Americans ever recorded as Titus. The median Titus alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 18,502 people named Titus (56 women and girls, 18,446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,290 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 83 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 580 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,340 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13,600 |
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 Titus born?
The states with the most babies named Titus are California, Texas and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 82 | #407 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 74 | #459 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 44 | #439 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 43 | #292 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 40 | #304 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 38 | #237 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 37 | #325 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 33 | #252 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 31 | #237 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 30 | #255 | 1.4× |
Where Titus is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Titus is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Titus 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 29,443 babies since 1880, Titus is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 910 of their 967 babies (94%), again the most given.
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 Titus
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 Titus and names like it
- Compare Titus and TytusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sTitus peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Titus since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Titus: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Titus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Titus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.