TEXAS  

Gender: M
Origin: Place-name

After Dallas, Austin, and Houston, the new cowboy on the block. Old-school Western nickname: Tex.

Texas is being discussed in our message boards:

• New Baby Name Game!!!
• Thirteen Kids (and counting..?)!
• People named after something else
• Place names
• East Texas not-too-out-there names in honor of Kat

Read Nameberry blog posts about Texas:

• THE LOST NAMES OF 1880
• MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NAMES
• NUMBER ONE NAMES: So Long, Jacob and Emily?
• AFRICAN-AMERICAN HEROINE NAMES