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How popular is “Texas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Texas” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Texas” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Texas” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Texas” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Texas” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Texas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Texas” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 5 0.000024816 5 100%
1881 5 0.000025949 5 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 100%
1885 5 0.000020759 5 100%
1886 7 0.000027417 7 100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 5 0.000004397 5 100%
1914 7 0.000004942 7 100%
1915 8 0.000004366 8 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1918 19 0.000008751 11 8 16%
1920 12 0.000005304 7 5 17%
1921 9 0.000003855 9 -100%
1922 19 0.0000083 11 8 16%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 6 0.000002571 6 -100%
1927 10 0.000004312 5 5 0%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 100%
1931 7 0.000003326 7 100%
1932 11 0.00000521 6 5 9%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 100%
1934 14 0.000006741 7 7 0%
1935 6 0.000002871 6 100%
1937 7 0.000003285 7 -100%
1938 13 0.000005876 7 6 8%
1939 11 0.000004992 11 -100%
1940 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1941 6 0.000002463 6 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 5 11 -38%
1943 8 0.000002834 8 -100%
1944 14 0.000005204 5 9 -29%
1945 5 0.000001885 5 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 9 0.000002583 9 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1995 5 0.000001365 5 100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 -100%
1998 5 0.000001359 5 100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 8 0.000002137 8 -100%
2005 10 0.000002601 10 -100%
2006 10 0.000002528 10 -100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 -100%
2008 22 0.000005597 22 -100%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 16 0.000004329 7 9 -13%
2011 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2012 18 0.000004922 5 13 -44%
2013 11 0.000003017 11 -100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 -100%
2015 8 0.000002162 8 -100%
2016 12 0.000003271 6 6 0%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 16 0.000004551 16 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 14 0.000004191 14 -100%
2021 22 0.000006494 6 16 -45%
2022 14 0.000004138 5 9 -29%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 -100%
2024 25 0.000007511 5 20 -60%

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