Boaz

At the 2020 census, 3,063 Americans bore the surname Boaz — 10,037th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 97,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,063
Rank: 10,037th
How common: 1 in 97,600
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

From Biblical Hebrew בֹּעַז.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boaz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Black, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Boaz

David Boaz (1953–2024)American libertarian author and editor

People named Boaz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boaz

Also a first name

Boaz has been given to 3,476 American babies as a first name since 1928, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.