girls:
11 births since 1918
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1890
#2764 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1890
#5705 (26th percentile)
The name Tex is the #5,705 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,077 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 26.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,764 (39.7% percentile) for all time with 2,066 births since 1890. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1918.
Tex first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (1890 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Tex is available in 110 out of the 134 years between 1890 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tex has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tex reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 11.8% percentile (ranked #463) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 56 births per million (ranked 11.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tex ranks #879 for boys (3.5% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 35.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tex reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #572) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1933.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tex".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tex is pronounced as tehks, which has 1 syllables.
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