Meaning not yet researched.
Tejas: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,860 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,860 in 2013; #2,933 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tejas in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,933 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,860.
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Tejas: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,860 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 77 (2013).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Tejas, making it the 2,933rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,038 places from #3,971 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 28 boys named Tejas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,860, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tejas in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,473 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 509 babies named Tejas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 367 US boys were named Tejas; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tejas ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,497 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Tejus and Tejash are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tejus (19), Tejash (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tejas in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,497 | #1,364 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,933 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,971 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,406 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,206 |
| 2021 | — | — | 34 | #3,415 |
| 2020 | — | — | 30 | #3,645 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,252 |
| 2018 | — | — | 47 | #2,666 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,243 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,983 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,483 |
| 2014 | — | — | 45 | #2,703 |
| 2013 | — | — | 77 | #1,860 |
| 2012 | — | — | 49 | #2,545 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,315 |
| 2010 | — | — | 72 | #1,953 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,074 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,509 |
| 2007 | — | — | 50 | #2,530 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,733 |
| 2005 | — | — | 48 | #2,428 |
| 2004 | — | — | 56 | #2,127 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,149 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,120 |
| 2001 | — | — | 51 | #2,082 |
| 2000 | — | — | 31 | #2,915 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,688 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,846 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,814 |
| 1996 | — | — | 17 | #3,999 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,181 |
| 1994 | — | — | 16 | #4,068 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,761 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,319 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,451 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,765 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,173 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,511 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #6,023 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,873 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,455 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,507 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,114 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #6,170 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,461 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,971 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #5,001 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,778 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).