Boris

Boys’ name Recorded 1911-2025

Boris was given to 37 boys in 2025, #3,188 among boys’ names; 4,621 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 3,450 Americans named Boris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 19 and 55.

Babies named Boris each year, first recorded in 1911

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Boris or Dionisio Names of the 1970s Names in New York

Births of Boris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Boris mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Boris is “a male given name from the Slavic languages.”

Borrowed from Bulgarian Бори́с (Borís).

/ˈbɔɹɪs/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Boris (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Boris?

#3,188 among boys’ names, 2025

Boris fell from #2,531 in 2015 to #3,188 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 21.7 per million.

82 babies in 1970, the peak

Boris peaked in 1970, when 82 boys were given it, #891 among boys’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.

Boris by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per million boys
2025	37	#3,188	21.7
2024	35	#3,339	20.3
2023	32	#3,575	18.7
2022	34	#3,419	19.5
2021	42	#2,921	24.0
2020	50	#2,551	29.0
2019	48	#2,661	26.8
2018	52	#2,477	28.6
2017	51	#2,494	27.6
2016	47	#2,628	24.8

Every recorded year (115)

Year	Births	Rank	Per million boys
2015	49	#2,531	25.6
2014	54	#2,373	28.1
2013	64	#2,091	33.8
2012	47	#2,597	24.8
2011	48	#2,548	25.3
2010	47	#2,583	24.5
2009	46	#2,666	23.2
2008	73	#1,952	35.8
2007	49	#2,536	23.6
2006	65	#2,037	31.6
2005	61	#2,032	30.5
2004	65	#1,879	32.7
2003	52	#2,125	26.3
2002	59	#1,890	30.4
2001	55	#1,956	28.3
2000	56	#1,873	28.5
1999	52	#1,877	27.1
1998	62	#1,664	32.4
1997	53	#1,792	28.1
1996	50	#1,815	26.4
1995	72	#1,388	37.8
1994	65	#1,466	33.6
1993	59	#1,536	30.1
1992	65	#1,412	32.5
1991	71	#1,330	35.1
1990	54	#1,542	26.3
1989	47	#1,655	23.5
1988	36	#1,850	18.8
1987	54	#1,366	28.9
1986	36	#1,726	19.5
1985	40	#1,596	21.6
1984	38	#1,580	21.1
1983	45	#1,398	25.1
1982	36	#1,654	19.8
1981	38	#1,579	21.2
1980	31	#1,814	17.4
1979	34	#1,676	19.7
1978	35	#1,599	21.3
1977	30	#1,747	18.3
1976	43	#1,351	27.4
1975	40	#1,382	25.6
1974	54	#1,116	34.3
1973	51	#1,149	32.7
1972	54	#1,108	33.3
1971	58	#1,070	32.8
1970	82	#891	44.1
1969	66	#944	36.9
1968	59	#946	33.9
1967	56	#969	32.1
1966	61	#932	34.2
1965	54	#1,000	29.0
1964	63	#959	31.6
1963	62	#956	30.5
1962	76	#873	36.7
1961	63	#969	29.7
1960	37	#1,297	17.4
1959	46	#1,141	21.6
1958	43	#1,172	20.3
1957	34	#1,346	15.8
1956	38	#1,235	18.0
1955	32	#1,338	15.5
1954	20	#1,712	9.8
1953	20	#1,715	10.1
1952	26	#1,486	13.4
1951	19	#1,729	10.1
1950	9	#2,600	5.0
1949	14	#2,034	7.9
1948	9	#2,628	5.1
1947	16	#1,923	8.7
1946	12	#2,156	7.4
1945	9	#2,413	6.7
1944	7	#2,888	5.1
1943	9	#2,578	6.3
1942	10	#2,395	7.2
1941	14	#1,916	11.4
1940	11	#2,196	9.5
1939	15	#1,801	13.6
1938	12	#2,092	10.8
1937	21	#1,488	19.7
1936	15	#1,810	14.5
1935	21	#1,497	20.2
1934	28	#1,270	27.1
1933	23	#1,409	23.2
1932	34	#1,159	32.6
1931	35	#1,149	33.7
1930	33	#1,237	30.1
1929	35	#1,178	32.5
1928	29	#1,356	26.2
1927	34	#1,251	30.2
1926	33	#1,264	29.7
1925	41	#1,091	36.7
1924	37	#1,191	32.7
1923	50	#980	45.6
1922	40	#1,121	36.8
1921	45	#1,047	40.9
1920	29	#1,351	27.2
1919	24	#1,486	24.5
1918	44	#1,013	43.4
1917	36	#1,117	38.9
1916	35	#1,098	39.3
1915	27	#1,270	31.8
1914	19	#1,395	29.0
1913	10	#1,815	19.5
1912	13	#1,365	30.2
1911	5	#1,772	22.1

Download Boris’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Boris a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Boris has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Boris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Boris, and how old are they?

3,450 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 75% of the 4,621 Americans ever recorded as Boris. The median Boris alive today is 34 years old; half are between 19 and 55.

The 2020 Census counted 14,924 people named Boris (72 women and girls, 14,852 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times 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

100-1091

90-9917

80-8937

70-79126

60-69418

50-59494

40-49338

30-39 (median)549

20-29568

10-19519

0-9378

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	48
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	455
Generation X	1965-1980	708
Millennials	1981-1996	767
Generation Z	1997-2012	875
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	591

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 Boris born?

The states with the most babies named Boris are New York, California and Florida, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
State	Since 1910	Rank, boys	vs. national
New York	672	#1,801	1.9×
California	580	#1,853	1.2×
Florida	173	not ranked	1.0×
Texas	102	not ranked	0.3×
Pennsylvania	80	not ranked	0.3×
Illinois	66	not ranked	0.3×
North Carolina	43	not ranked	0.3×
Georgia	39	not ranked	0.3×
Alabama	22	not ranked	0.3×
New Jersey	17	not ranked	0.1×

Where Boris is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Boris is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

New York1.90×

California1.23×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Boris 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 Boris

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1910-2025
Dionisio	1,194
Geno	3,725
Lino	4,194
Demetrio	3,064
Clemente	3,751
Marcelino	7,476

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 Boris and names like it

Compare Boris and DionisioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 1970sBoris peaked in 1970.
New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boris since 1910.
The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Boris.
The names of Generation ZMost people named Boris alive today were born 1997-2012.
Names starting with BMost given first.

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