What baby names are unique to Texas?

Sanjuanita is the name most distinctive to Texas, given about 12 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Infantof, Jesusa and Infant follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in Texas is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to Texas

The most distinctive Texas baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in Texas than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Sanjuanita leads: it is given about 12× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of Texas births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Sanjuanita	2,989	12×
2	Infantof	124	12×
3	Jesusa	1,554	12×
4	Infant	6,583	11×
5	Ofilia	402	11×
6	Eudelia	322	11×
7	Joeangel	294	11×
8	Roel	3,591	11×
9	Sanjuana	1,764	11×
10	Idolina	255	10×
11	Adelfa	283	10×
12	Armandina	599	10×
13	Otila	383	10×
14	Diamantina	508	10×
15	Oralia	4,182	10×
16	Refugia	870	10×
17	Criselda	1,196	10×
18	Baldemar	1,592	10×
19	Homero	2,622	10×
20	Enedelia	504	10×
21	Zaragoza	54	9×
22	Dominga	2,623	9×
23	Elida	4,913	9×
24	Estefana	620	9×
25	Ninfa	1,569	9×
26	Tomasa	1,854	9×
27	Josefa	2,150	8×
28	Enriqueta	1,102	8×
29	Herlinda	2,607	8×
30	Alejos	69	8×
31	Felipa	1,290	8×
32	Ironesha	23	8×
33	Fidela	260	8×
34	Hortencia	2,294	8×
35	Blasa	123	8×
36	Gregoria	1,226	8×
37	Agapito	892	8×
38	Herminia	2,093	8×
39	Erasmo	2,246	8×
40	San	1,432	8×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to Texas in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Roel	33	5×
Stoney	24	5×
Eugenia	29	4×
Arnoldo	15	4×
Brazos	15	4×
Halen	15	4×
Chizaram	14	4×
Vedh	14	4×
Ayelen	13	4×
Aylanni	13	4×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Jesusa	19×
1920s	Jesusa	17×
1930s	Elida	16×
1940s	Oralia	16×
1950s	Sanjuanita	15×
1960s	Sanjuanita	13×
1970s	Sanjuanita	11×
1980s	Roel	9×
1990s	Infantof	10×
2000s	Infant	9×
2010s	Infant	7×
2020s	Joeangel	6×

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org