Townes
#1,321 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Townes has been given to 1,511 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #1,321 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 147 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.
Babies named Townes, 2025
1 in 22,600
Townes over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Townes over time
In 2025, Townes went to 13% girls and 87% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Townes?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 22,600
- 147 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 11,600
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,321
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 15,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Townes sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Townes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Towness were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Townes was born before 2019 — so the typical Townes is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 49.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,404
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 49.9% of all recorded uses (700).
Is Townes 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
- +228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +507
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,002
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.58×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (147)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Townes
Townes is not the most common spelling — Toney is, with 46.4% against Townes's 10.2%.
Where Townes is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Townes was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 18,856 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
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.
Where Townes is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Townes was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,116,447 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Townes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Townes around the world
Where Townes 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.
- Canada2015–2024#2,550in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Townes by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Townes
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Townes
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.