What is the most popular baby name in Texas?

On a heavy SSA book, Texas's cumulative #1 boy is James (284,797 births) and #1 girl is Mary (211,241 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Texas over the decades?

Texas is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from James/Mary (1910s) to Liam/Olivia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Texas?

Our data covers 7,603,116 name registrations in Texas for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (MEGA volume stamp · #3 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Texas

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Texas, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

James
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 7,603,116
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Texas's all-time #1 names are James for boys and Mary for girls, based on 7,603,116 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Texas has recorded 7,603,116 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. James leads all boys with 284,797 births, while Mary tops the girls with 211,241. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

James #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
7,603,116 births recorded

Where Texas sits by recorded name volume

Texas: 25,553,856 SSA name registrations (MEGA · rank 3/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Texas vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

25,553,856 3rd of 51 higher than 48 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Texas naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 211,241 cumulative SSA births in Texas ≠ Emma #1 of 3,801 2025 girl names at all-time rank #15; James is #1 of 284,797 cumulative SSA births in Texas ≠ Liam #1 of 2,952 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Emma
2025 girls #1, all-time #15: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Liam
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: James
all-time boys #1, 2025 #12

Both sexes in Texas already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a heavy registry book shows for Texas

Texas sits in the heaviest third of SSA name-state registration totals (25,553,856 · MEGA · #3/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are James (284,797 boy births) and Mary (211,241 girl births) across 7,603,116 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 4,714,586 vs 2,888,530 for girls.

In Texas, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a heavy state file

Decade-by-decade data for Texas extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was James and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Liam for boys and Olivia for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Emma

1,707
Olivia

1,580
Isabella

1,559
Mia

1,483
Sophia

1,359
Camila

1,349
Amelia

1,329
Sofia

1,307
Eliana

1,275
Ailany

1,213

What this shows Emma leads 2025 girls in Texas; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #15 in 2025.

Liam

2,688
Noah

2,450
Mateo

2,081
Santiago

1,829
Sebastian

1,498
Elijah

1,455
Oliver

1,361
Elias

1,321
Levi

1,163
Julian

1,115

What this shows Liam leads 2025 boys in Texas; James remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

211,241
Maria

134,829
Elizabeth

100,615
Jennifer

99,824
Linda

84,058
Jessica

79,576
Ashley

79,157
Patricia

74,997
Emily

67,421
Sarah

67,378

What this shows Mary leads Texas girls with 211,241 recorded births.

James

284,797
John

244,549
Michael

236,684
David

231,913
Robert

224,847
William

185,794
Jose

170,769
Christopher

154,189
Daniel

132,769
Charles

130,993

What this shows James leads Texas boys with 284,797 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Texas for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	James	14,208	Mary	18,324
1920s	James	26,757	Mary	34,179
1930s	James	26,749	Mary	32,181
1940s	James	37,709	Mary	39,485
1950s	James	42,756	Mary	37,747
1960s	David	38,807	Lisa	21,518
1970s	Michael	40,081	Jennifer	31,480
1980s	Christopher	44,567	Jessica	35,076
1990s	Michael	30,543	Ashley	25,434
2000s	Jose	27,653	Emily	21,088
2010s	Noah	18,807	Emma	20,357
2020s	Liam	15,744	Olivia	10,902

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	James	284,797
2	John	244,549
3	Michael	236,684
4	David	231,913
5	Robert	224,847
6	William	185,794
7	Jose	170,769
8	Christopher	154,189
9	Daniel	132,769
10	Charles	130,993
11	Juan	118,596
12	Richard	111,892
13	Matthew	102,270
14	Joshua	100,573
15	Joseph	98,928
16	Thomas	92,850
17	Joe	87,651
18	Jacob	82,859
19	Anthony	81,281
20	Andrew	77,711
21	Jonathan	74,817
22	Jesus	74,132
23	Mark	72,423
24	Jason	71,812
25	Kenneth	68,973
26	Kevin	67,820
27	George	66,587
28	Brandon	65,412
29	Steven	62,284
30	Luis	62,145
31	Justin	61,340
32	Samuel	61,287
33	Billy	61,210
34	Paul	61,190
35	Carlos	60,608
36	Ryan	57,112
37	Eric	56,443
38	Aaron	55,197
39	Larry	54,699
40	Jerry	53,169
41	Edward	52,613
42	Donald	52,580
43	Benjamin	51,635
44	Alexander	50,257
45	Brian	49,347
46	Christian	48,078
47	Noah	48,010
48	Stephen	47,454
49	Angel	47,145
50	Jesse	46,892

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	211,241
2	Maria	134,829
3	Elizabeth	100,615
4	Jennifer	99,824
5	Linda	84,058
6	Jessica	79,576
7	Ashley	79,157
8	Patricia	74,997
9	Emily	67,421
10	Sarah	67,378
11	Amanda	61,968
12	Stephanie	61,470
13	Kimberly	61,118
14	Cynthia	60,775
15	Emma	59,614
16	Sandra	58,588
17	Barbara	58,460
18	Melissa	57,957
19	Laura	56,499
20	Betty	54,581
21	Rebecca	54,251
22	Victoria	53,396
23	Dorothy	52,986
24	Lisa	49,557
25	Michelle	49,169
26	Olivia	47,741
27	Samantha	47,146
28	Brenda	46,773
29	Karen	46,501
30	Angela	45,960
31	Amy	45,153
32	Margaret	44,013
33	Nancy	43,639
34	Isabella	42,407
35	Evelyn	41,857
36	Martha	41,010
37	Gloria	40,965
38	Sophia	40,939
39	Andrea	40,322
40	Mia	40,263
41	Rachel	39,873
42	Anna	39,869
43	Katherine	39,260
44	Lauren	38,745
45	Diana	38,584
46	Abigail	38,521
47	Susan	37,862
48	Deborah	37,601
49	Donna	37,590
50	Ruby	36,451

Read with Texas

Nearest ABS peers for a heavy-registry state (Texas · MEGA · TREND-LED).

MEGA TREND-LED

New York · MEGA

25,832,525 SSA registrations (near-scale with Texas; ABS Δ 278,669). Leader lane may differ from Texas's TREND-LED.

Pennsylvania · MEGA

17,935,365 SSA registrations (1.4× smaller than Texas; ABS Δ 7,618,491). Leader lane may differ from Texas's TREND-LED.

California · MEGA

33,446,519 SSA registrations (near-scale with Texas; ABS Δ 7,892,663). Leader lane may differ from Texas's TREND-LED.

Illinois · MEGA

16,484,702 SSA registrations (1.6× smaller than Texas; ABS Δ 9,069,154). Leader lane may differ from Texas's TREND-LED.

Ohio (volume-lane contrast)

Near Texas on SSA registration volume yet stamps HEAVY vs MEGA.

Why names rise and fall

Texas stamps MEGA · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - heavy-registry states: how cumulative leaders and latest-year splits are computed.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.