Boston
Boston is ranked 627th among boys in 2024 (449 births). Its best rank was 536th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- #627up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4490.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 2014497 births
- Best rank
- #536in 2012
- Since 1880
- 11,437people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,448 boys have been named Boston in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 497 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 989 girls have also been given it, 8.6% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Boston | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 29 | |
| 1910s | 94 | |
| 1920s | 119 | |
| 1930s | 72 | |
| 1940s | 76 | |
| 1950s | 33 | |
| 1960s | 22 | |
| 1970s | 17 | |
| 1980s | 111 | |
| 1990s | 496 | |
| 2000s | 2,609 | |
| 2010s | 4,481 | |
| 2020s | 2,262 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Boston was the 555th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Boston
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cooperpeak 2024
- Nehemiahpeak 2010
- Yaelpeak 2023
- Reefpeak 2021
- Fisherpeak 2016
- Taydenpeak 2009
- Cashpeak 2013
- Yuvrajpeak 2016
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.