Boston — #627 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Boston

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,448 babies named Boston between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Boston currently holds the #627 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 497 babies received it in a single year. Boston is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 989 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Boston performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,481 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Boston shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 1,533 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Boston in 44 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Boston 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 10,448 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.