Boone
Boone was given to 762 boys in 2025, #423 among boys’ names; 6,892 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,600 Americans named Boone and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boone by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boone?
#423 among boys’ names, 2025
Boone rose from #944 in 2015 to #423 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.45 per 1,000.
762 babies in 2025, the peak
Boone peaked in 2025, when 762 boys were given it, #423 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 558 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 762 | #423 | 0.45 |
| 2024 | 558 | #534 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 475 | #596 | 0.28 |
| 2022 | 468 | #602 | 0.27 |
| 2021 | 488 | #573 | 0.28 |
| 2020 | 478 | #581 | 0.28 |
| 2019 | 402 | #657 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 379 | #666 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 337 | #718 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 298 | #794 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 222 | #944 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 195 | #1,035 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 158 | #1,145 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 128 | #1,329 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 93 | #1,636 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 88 | #1,726 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 88 | #1,741 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,006 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,188 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 53 | #2,236 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,163 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,673 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,634 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 36 | #2,618 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,740 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 33 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,826 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,329 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,624 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,081 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 21 | #2,995 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #3,209 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,371 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 25 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 36 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,308 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,792 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,589 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,191 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,058 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,967 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,103 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,127 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,599 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,179 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,904 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,578 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,888 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,036 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #2,872 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,057 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,752 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,785 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 9 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #3,907 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,005 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,147 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,396 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,412 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,955 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,447 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,109 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,148 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #988 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boone a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boone has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 87 years of records.
Girls and boys named Boone: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boone, and how old are they?
6,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 6,892 Americans ever recorded as Boone. The median Boone alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 3,490 people named Boone (42 women and girls, 3,448 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 119 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 878 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,190 |
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 Boone born?
The states with the most babies named Boone are Texas, Tennessee and Ohio, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 60 | #539 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 50 | #186 | 2.1× |
| Ohio | 47 | #266 | 1.3× |
| Utah | 35 | #151 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 34 | #339 | 1.5× |
| California | 31 | #798 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 31 | #267 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 30 | #387 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 28 | #325 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 26 | #264 | 1.8× |
Where Boone is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Boone is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Boone 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 Boone
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 Boone and names like it
- Compare Boone and MatiasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBoone peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boone since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Boone.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Boone alive today were born 2013-2025.
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