Townes
Townes is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 147 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,704 among girls’ names and #1,321 among boys’, #2,480 among all names counting both); 1,511 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Townes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Townes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Townes?
#1,321 among boys’ names, 2025
Townes rose from #2,323 in 2015 to #1,321 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 29.7 to 86.1 per million.
169 babies in 2025, the peak
Townes peaked in 2025, when 169 babies were given it (147 boys, #1,321 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 114 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,321 | 86.1 |
| 2024 | 114 | #1,549 | 66.2 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,528 | 67.8 |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,493 | 69.9 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,502 | 68.0 |
| 2020 | 82 | #1,828 | 47.5 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,038 | 40.1 |
| 2018 | 79 | #1,897 | 43.5 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,562 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 82 | #1,843 | 43.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #2,323 | 29.7 |
| 2014 | 51 | #2,487 | 26.6 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,274 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,764 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 57 | #2,282 | 30.0 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,007 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,906 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,877 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,110 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,066 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,015 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,094 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,674 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,579 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Townes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,511 Americans recorded as Townes, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Townes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Townes, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,511 Americans ever recorded as Townes. The median Townes alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 769 people named Townes (50 women and girls, 719 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 739 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 253 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,250 |
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 Townes born?
The states with the most babies named Townes are Texas, California and Tennessee, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 44 | #729 | 2.1× |
| California | 12 | #1,498 | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #833 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,073 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 8 | #870 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #799 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #807 | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #891 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,071 | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | #868 | 0.2× |
Where Townes is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Townes is most over-represented in Texas: since 2002 it was given 2.1 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 Townes 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 Townes
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 Townes and names like it
- Compare Townes and AtharvBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTownes peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Townes since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Townes.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Townes alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.