Boy Names Starting With T
Theodore leads the T names for boys: 13,355 babies received it in 2025, putting it at #4 overall. One of them even sits in the overall top 10 for 2025.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #4 | Theodore | 13,355 |
| #34 | Thomas | 6,917 |
| #50 | Thiago | 5,835 |
| #82 | Theo | 3,945 |
| #181 | Tucker | 2,008 |
| #194 | Tate | 1,862 |
| #202 | Tatum | 1,736 |
| #203 | Timothy | 1,734 |
| #220 | Tyler | 1,633 |
| #283 | Tobias | 1,201 |
| #309 | Tristan | 1,103 |
| #358 | Titus | 910 |
| #427 | Tadeo | 753 |
| #434 | Travis | 732 |
| #475 | Tanner | 641 |
| #521 | Truett | 578 |
| #522 | Tripp | 572 |
| #531 | Tyson | 565 |
| #533 | Troy | 563 |
| #591 | Tru | 496 |
| #658 | Tommy | 420 |
| #680 | Trevor | 400 |
| #685 | Taylor | 398 |
| #691 | Tomas | 394 |
| #758 | Trace | 340 |
| #774 | Truce | 331 |
| #784 | Tony | 325 |
| #794 | Teo | 318 |
| #798 | Thaddeus | 314 |
| #813 | Ty | 306 |
| #823 | Teddy | 301 |
| #890 | Trey | 269 |
| #979 | Toby | 234 |
| #1,042 | Trenton | 213 |
| #1,050 | True | 211 |
| #1,079 | Tzvi | 200 |
| #1,107 | Turner | 195 |
| #1,111 | Thatcher | 194 |
| #1,116 | Terry | 192 |
| #1,117 | Tiago | 192 |
| #1,137 | Tylan | 187 |
| #1,181 | Talon | 175 |
| #1,295 | Titan | 151 |
| #1,321 | Townes | 147 |
| #1,344 | Trent | 142 |
| #1,350 | Torin | 140 |
| #1,361 | Taylen | 138 |
| #1,379 | Thorin | 134 |
| #1,392 | Tyrone | 132 |
| #1,512 | Tristen | 116 |
Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin T boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.
How common T names are
3.7% of the births in the 2025 boys' top 1,000 went to a name starting with T — 33 names in all, giving the initial the 12th-largest share among the 26 initials. The letter's #1 name, Theodore, holds overall rank #4 with 13,355 births; its 50th and last name, Tristen, was recorded 116 times at #1,512.
That 3.7% is T's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 33-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.
T names across the decades
| Year | List | Leading T name | T names in top 200 | Share of births |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1950s snapshot | Thomas (#8) | 10 | 5.4% |
| 1965 | 1960s snapshot | Thomas (#9) | 12 | 7.0% |
| 1975 | 1970s snapshot | Thomas (#20) | 14 | 5.3% |
| 1985 | 1980s snapshot | Thomas (#25) | 11 | 4.7% |
| 1995 | 1990s snapshot | Tyler (#6) | 11 | 6.0% |
| 2005 | 2000s snapshot | Tyler (#16) | 9 | 3.8% |
| 2015 | 2010s snapshot | Thomas (#51) | 6 | 2.3% |
| 2025 | latest year, cut to its top 200 | Theodore (#4) | 6 | 3.8% |
Counting only names inside each snapshot's top 200, the T tally for boys runs 10 in 1955, 12 in 1965, 14 in 1975, 11 in 1985, 11 in 1995, 9 in 2005, 6 in 2015 — highest in 1975, lowest in 2015. The leading name was Thomas (#8) in 1955 and Thomas (#51) in 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 6 T names, led by Theodore at #4. 2 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Thomas and Tyler. 2 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appear in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Thomas and Timothy.
T names held 5.4% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 2.3% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 3.8%. The first-letter trends guide sets T's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.
Faded and new
The snapshot lists hold 7 T names for boys that the 2025 top 50 does not: Todd (1955–1985, best #30 in 1965), Terrence (1955, 1975, best #181 in 1955), Terrance (1975, best #192 in 1975), Tim (1965, best #97 in 1965), Tracy (1965, best #110 in 1965), Tom (1955, 1965, best #127 in 1965), and Ted (1955, best #188 in 1955). The years in parentheses are the snapshot years whose top 200 included the name; the most recent of them to chart is Todd, in 1985.
In the other direction, 32 of the 50 names on the 2025 list are absent from every snapshot top 200: the first 12 by rank are Thiago (#50), Theo (#82), Tate (#194), Tatum (#202), Tobias (#283), Titus (#358), Tadeo (#427), Truett (#521), Tripp (#522), Tyson (#531), Tru (#591), and Tomas (#691), and the remaining 20 follow in the table above.
Read both lists against the depths that produce them — 200 ranks per snapshot year, 50 names for T in 2025 with the last at #1,512: a name missing from a snapshot may sit below rank 200 that year, and a name missing from the 2025 list may sit below Tristen; the committed files do not say.
Shape of the list
By the generator's length classes, the 50 names on the 2025 table split into 11 short spellings of four letters or fewer (Theo, for one), 36 medium spellings of five to seven (Thomas, for one), and 3 long spellings of eight or more (Theodore, for one). The longest spellings on the 2025 list, at 8 letters, are Theodore, Thaddeus, and Thatcher; the shortest is Ty at 2.
17 of the 50 names rank past #1,000, beyond the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era samples; the rest divide into 4 inside the top 100 (1 inside the top 10), 11 at ranks 101–500, and 18 at 501–1,000.
7 names on this list also appear on the 2025 girls' T list, each ranked separately per sex by the SSA: Tate (#194 for boys, #1,379 for girls), Tatum (#202 for boys, #189 for girls), Tyler (#220 for boys, #1,924 for girls), Tru (#591 for boys, #974 for girls), Taylor (#685 for boys, #403 for girls), Toby (#979 for boys, #1,923 for girls), and True (#1,050 for boys, #1,387 for girls). Second letters on the 2025 list number 9; r leads them, opening 14 of the 50 names (Tr-), with Ta-, Th-, and To- (7 each) next.
T boy names: questions answered from the data
How common are T names among 2025 boy names?
33 names, carrying 3.7% of the births in the 2025 boys' top 1,000; that share ranks T 12th of the 26 initials. This page's table goes deeper, to the letter's top 50, ending at overall rank #1,512.
Which T boy name had the most births in 2025?
Theodore, with 13,355 births and overall rank #4. Next is Thomas at #34 with 6,917 births.
What is the lowest-ranked name on this T list?
The 50th and last name, Tristen, ranks #1,512 overall with 116 births. 17 of the 50 names rank past #1,000, outside the top-1,000 list; their ranks come from the full 2025 SSA file, which the per-letter data carries.
How did T boy names chart in the snapshot years from 1955 to 2015?
10 in 1955, led by Thomas (#8). The count is 6 in 2015, led by Thomas (#51), and the 7-snapshot high is 14 in 1975.
Other letters
Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with T.
Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.