Boots — unisex name
125 babies named Boots in U.S. Social Security records since 1912, with the highest year being 1924. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
57% of everyone ever named Boots was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Boots in 1924 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Boots
The Social Security Administration has registered 125 babies named Boots between 1912 and 1934, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Boots currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1934. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Boots is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1912.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Boots performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 71 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Boots shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Boots in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 125 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Boots at a glance
Last recorded 1934Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Boots popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1934–1912
- Peak year (1924)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1934.
125 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1924 with 14 births in a single year.
Boots popularity over time — boys
28 total births recorded since 1912 (Boots as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Boots accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Boots by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 71 births that decade — 57% of Boots's all-time total
Boots decade highlights
- Peak decade 71 births
- Runner-up 38 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Boots's strongest decade
71 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 57% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1912–1934 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.