Tuff — #3126 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tuff

The Social Security Administration has registered 873 babies named Tuff between 1995 and 2024, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tuff currently holds the #3126 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 61 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tuff performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 413 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Tuff shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 136 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Tuff in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tuff 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 873 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.