first name
HOUSTON
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 9,835 people named Houston, 70.7% reported their origin as White, 15.2% as Black and 6% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Houston peaked in 2021, when 469 babies got the name.
At least 18,540 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Houston by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #962. The largest share of babies named Houston, 24.2%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Houston is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Houston has been most common in Alabama (5.9×), Mississippi (5.7×), and Tennessee (5.5×), and least common in Iowa (0.17×).
13,272 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Houston ranks #594 of 156,621, with 55,138 people. See Houston as a last name
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