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Boe

About 1,101 American babies have been named Boe since 1971, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 3,314th. About 1,100 Boes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Boe boys named Boe

By the numbers

Total US births
1,101
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
15
Peak year
2015
Best rank
2,919th
Rank in 2025
3,314th
First recorded
1971
Girls / boys
22 / 1,079

How old the living Boes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,101 babies given the name since 1971, about 1,100 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 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 Boe is most common

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

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Boe peaked:

All the names of 2015

Boe elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Boe 269 1,210th
England and Wales boys Boe 172 1,533rd
Scotland girls Boe 3 792nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Boe among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Boe 6

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Try it on yourself

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.