Boruch
Boruch was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,253 among boys’ names; 1,147 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Boruch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boruch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boruch?
#3,253 among boys’ names, 2025
Boruch fell from #3,086 in 2015 to #3,253 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 21.1 per million.
42 babies in 2013, the peak
Boruch peaked in 2013, when 42 boys were given it, #2,765 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,253 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,464 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,897 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,627 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 24 | #4,255 | 13.7 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,289 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,123 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,450 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,449 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,691 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,086 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,381 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 42 | #2,765 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 22 | #4,409 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,314 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,905 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,841 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,490 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,516 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,455 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,823 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 33 | #3,022 | 16.6 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,538 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,200 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,327 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,152 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,594 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,859 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,459 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 22 | #3,205 | 11.6 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,563 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,314 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,049 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #3,762 | 8.0 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,752 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,176 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,460 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,479 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,745 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,607 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,821 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #2,970 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,591 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,713 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,185 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,737 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,833 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,131 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,561 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,181 | 3.2 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,194 | 2.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,338 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,372 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,037 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,541 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boruch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boruch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Boruch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boruch, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,147 Americans ever recorded as Boruch. The median Boruch alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 856 people named Boruch (2 women and girls, 854 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 955 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 44 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 406 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 401 |
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 Boruch born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 20 | #397 | 7.8× |
Where Boruch is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Boruch is most over-represented in New York: since 1955 it was given 8.5 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 Boruch 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 Boruch
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 Boruch and names like it
- Compare Boruch and MikhailBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boruch since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Boruch.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Boruch alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with BMost given first.