Boaz
Boaz was given to 268 boys in 2025, #891 among boys’ names; 3,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,430 Americans named Boaz and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boaz by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Boaz mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Boaz is “a male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.”
From Biblical Hebrew בֹּעַז (Bṓʿaz).
/ˈboʊ.əz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Boaz?
#891 among boys’ names, 2025
Boaz rose from #1,308 in 2015 to #891 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.16 per 1,000.
268 babies in 2025, the peak
Boaz peaked in 2025, when 268 boys were given it, #891 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 221 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 268 | #891 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 221 | #1,011 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 239 | #947 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 220 | #1,012 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 217 | #1,010 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,111 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 191 | #1,066 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,096 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,220 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,170 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 135 | #1,308 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 117 | #1,428 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,345 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 93 | #1,659 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 81 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 80 | #1,815 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 81 | #1,826 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 54 | #2,375 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,378 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,204 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 49 | #2,313 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,847 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,559 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,918 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,184 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,395 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,031 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,070 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,132 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #3,149 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,007 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,020 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,289 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,509 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,670 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,022 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,585 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,045 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,814 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,655 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,973 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,217 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boaz a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boaz has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Boaz: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boaz, and how old are they?
3,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,476 Americans ever recorded as Boaz. The median Boaz alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,271 people named Boaz (2 women and girls, 2,269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,390 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Boaz born?
The states with the most babies named Boaz are Texas, Missouri and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 24 | #980 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 18 | #348 | 0.8× |
| California | 16 | #1,205 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #635 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 11 | #682 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #640 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 11 | #636 | 0.7× |
| Oregon | 10 | #380 | 1.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #862 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 9 | #876 | 0.4× |
Where Boaz is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Boaz is most over-represented in Washington: since 1928 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Boaz with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Boaz
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Boaz and names like it
- Compare Boaz and KabirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBoaz peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boaz since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Boaz: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Boaz.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Boaz alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.