Texas vs Texie

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Texas Texie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Texie for 57 years and Texas for 49 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.

• 1881–1883 Texie ahead
• 1884–1887 Texas ahead
• 1888–1941 Texie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1947–1949 Texas ahead
• 1950–1956 Texie ahead
• 1963–2025 Texas ahead

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Texies alive today are over 83; half the Texases are over 13. That is 70 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Texas Texas (13.0×)
• Texie North Carolina (30.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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