Boy

4,027 people in the United States were counted with the surname Boy in the 2020 census, making it the 7,908th most common in the country. That is about one person in 74,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,027
Rank: 7,908th
How common: 1 in 74,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 44.0%
Hispanic or Latino 26.7%
Black, not Hispanic 18.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.9%

Notable people called Boy

Burna Boy (born 1991)Nigerian singer and songwriter
Soulja Boy (born 1990)American rapper and record producer
Renate Boy (1939–2023)German shot putter
Philipp Boy (born 1987)German gymnast
Tomás Boy (1951–2022)Mexican association football player and manager
Badly Drawn Boy (born 1969)British singer-songwriter
Werner Boy (1879–1914)German mathematician

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

Surnames like Boy

Also a first name

Boy has been given to 923 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 2019. 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.