Boe
Boe is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 32 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 320.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201540 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 1,065people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,043 boys have been named Boe in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 40 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2015, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 32%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 22 girls have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Boe was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Boe
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jedidiahpeak 2017
- Yoelpeak 2019
- Marwanpeak 2017
- Hashimpeak 2016
- Rianpeak 2021
- Francopeak 2016
- Salimpeak 2023
- Micahpeak 2022
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.