girls:
230 births since 1880
#5486 (4th percentile)
boys:
456 births since 1918
#4130 (10th percentile)
overall:
686 births since 1880
#7053 (9th percentile)
The name Texas is the #7,053 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 686 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 8.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,130 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 456 births since 1918. For girls, it ranks #5,486 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 230 births since 1880.
Texas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys). Birth data for Texas is available in 76 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (53 years for boys and 37 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 Texas has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (66.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Texas were boys. Interestingly, until around 1922, the name was more popular for girls (84.4% girls from 1880 to 1921), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (79.6% boys from 1922 to 2023).
For boys, Texas reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #890) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Texas ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 59.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Texas reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #352) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 51 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Texas".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Texas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Texas is pronounced as TEHK-suhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEHK-suh-sihz, at 12.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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