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Tex

#3,501 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tex has been given to 2,131 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #3,501 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1940, with 67 recorded.

Babies named Tex, 2025

1 in 100,000

Tex over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tex: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tex means

Tex is a given name.

The naming story behind Tex

Wikidata records Tex as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q22342928, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,120 boys were recorded with the name Tex between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 67 in 1940; its best national rank was #757 in 1940.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,522 in 2020 to #3,501 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,632 in 2015 to #3,501 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Tex between 1918 and 1933. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1933; its best national rank was #4,172 in 1933.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tex?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,501
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tex sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tex. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Texs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tex was born before 1947 — so the typical Tex is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
969
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Choose a decade

1940s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (519).

Is Tex rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,534
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,021
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,131
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.3%
Peak was 1940 (67)
Years since peak
85
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#757
1940

Where Tex is used

Across 1910–2025, Tex was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 80,845 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2West Virginia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tex has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tex around the world

Where Tex ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2022–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1969–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tex

People whose public names include Tex, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tex by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,501
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,021
Best rank ever
#757
1940
Peak year
1940
67 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,120
Count in 2025
33

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,172
1933
Peak year
1933
6 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1933
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tex

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tex

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tex, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tex

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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