US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Houston name popularity

Houston has been given to 18,540 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2021, when 469 babies got the name, and its best rank was #778 in 1886.

In 2025, 413 babies were named Houston (#1,341 in the country), 12% below the peak. That is up 49% from 2015.

About 2% of babies named Houston were girls and 98% were boys.

An estimated 13K people named Houston are alive in the US today, with a median age of 23.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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