Tex
Tex is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 757th, in 1940.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 194067 births
- Best rank
- #757in 1940
- Since 1890
- 2,087people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,087 boys have been named Tex in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1940, with 67 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 25%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tex | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 7 | |
| 1910s | 85 | |
| 1920s | 222 | |
| 1930s | 307 | |
| 1940s | 519 | |
| 1950s | 296 | |
| 1960s | 141 | |
| 1970s | 90 | |
| 1980s | 72 | |
| 1990s | 36 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 110 | |
| 2020s | 123 |
In 1940, its biggest year
Tex was the 757th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1940 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1940.
Names that rose and fell with Tex
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geraldpeak 1942
- Bennypeak 1948
- Arlanpeak 1936
- Freddiepeak 1947
- Lynwoodpeak 1935
- Allanpeak 1947
- Fredricpeak 1947
- Mackiepeak 1942
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.