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Babyboy

Babyboy reached its high-water mark in 1998 at number 977, and has been recorded 2,291 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 2,200 Babyboys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Babyboy

By the numbers

Total US births
2,291
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
26
Peak year
1998
Best rank
977th
Rank in 2025
5,861st
First recorded
1983

How old the living Babyboys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,291 babies given the name since 1983, about 2,200 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Babyboy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Babyboy is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (11.6×), Nevada (4.7×), Washington (3.8×), Texas (3.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1998

The most popular boys’ names the year Babyboy peaked:

All the names of 1998

Related names

Babyboy against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.