Houston
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#675
up +31 places
2025 births
402
up +21 births
All-time births
18,104
2% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2021
- 440 births
- Best rank
- #319
- in 1901
- First recorded
- 1880
- #451 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1977
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 2021440#625Peak
- 2025402#675
- 2023387#689
- 2024381#706
- 2022380#696
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #319 in 1901 · peak births 440 in 2021
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 98% boys■ 2% girls
18,104 boys · 436 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Houston has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.