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Tejas

Tejas is a boy's name that peaked in 2013, when it was the 1,851st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,884th. About 1,500 Tejases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Tejas

By the numbers

Total US births
1,473
Estimated living today
1,500
Median age today
16
Peak year
2013
Best rank
1,851st
Rank in 2025
2,884th
First recorded
1977

How old the living Tejases are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,473 babies given the name since 1977, about 1,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 830 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Tejas is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tejas is most concentrated in California (6.4×), New Jersey (4.0×), Texas (1.1×), Illinois (1.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2013

The most popular boys’ names the year Tejas peaked:

All the names of 2013

Tejas elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Tejas 260 1,322nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Tejas against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.