Boe
Boe was given to 35 boys in 2025, #3,317 among boys’ names; 1,101 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Boe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boe?
#3,317 among boys’ names, 2025
Boe fell from #2,924 in 2015 to #3,317 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 20.9 to 20.5 per million.
42 babies in 2021, the peak
Boe peaked in 2021, when 42 babies were given it (37 boys, #3,186 among boys’ names). The 35 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #3,317 | 20.5 |
| 2024 | 32 | #3,530 | 18.6 |
| 2023 | 37 | #3,232 | 21.6 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,344 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,186 | 21.1 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,825 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,429 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,173 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,316 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,000 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #2,924 | 20.9 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,040 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,191 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 23 | #4,262 | 12.1 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,173 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,904 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,579 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,489 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,653 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,235 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,485 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,273 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,294 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,424 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,502 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,362 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,219 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,432 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,310 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,213 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,536 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,133 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,389 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,183 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,997 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,434 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,629 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,813 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,955 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,142 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,820 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,300 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 16 | #2,797 | 8.9 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,003 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,045 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,288 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 13 | #3,188 | 7.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,885 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,469 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,111 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,457 | 6.4 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,556 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,251 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,064 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,004 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,101 Americans recorded as Boe, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 35 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Boe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boe, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,101 Americans ever recorded as Boe. The median Boe alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,249 people named Boe (183 women and girls, 1,066 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 110 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 203 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 284 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 474 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 17,324 babies since 1880, Boe is the second most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 763 babies (4.6%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Boe
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 Boe and names like it
- Compare Boe and BoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBoe peaked in 2021.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boe since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Boe.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Boe alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.