Bostyn
Bostyn is given to both girls and boys: 41 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,654 among girls’ names and #6,181 among boys’, #5,284 among all names counting both); 1,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Bostyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bostyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bostyn?
#3,654 among girls’ names, 2025
Bostyn rose from #3,779 in 2015 to #3,654 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 22.4 to 25.5 per million.
77 babies in 2016, the peak
Bostyn peaked in 2016, when 77 babies were given it (61 girls, #2,806 among girls’ names). The 55 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,654 | 14 | #6,181 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,348 | 20 | #4,912 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,532 | 18 | #5,274 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,899 | 10 | #7,832 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,029 | 18 | #5,136 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,279 | 16 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,230 | 14 | #6,139 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,013 | 18 | #5,131 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,155 | 14 | #6,091 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,806 | 16 | #5,589 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,779 | 16 | #5,538 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,727 | 16 | #5,504 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,082 | 20 | #4,640 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,307 | 8 | #8,964 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,851 | 19 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,635 | 15 | #5,768 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,135 | 9 | #8,375 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,120 | 12 | #6,800 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,158 | 10 | #7,658 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,931 | 5 | #12,262 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,978 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #10,113 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,116 | 5 | #11,079 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Bostyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,038 Americans recorded as Bostyn, 71% are girls and 29% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bostyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bostyn, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,038 Americans ever recorded as Bostyn. The median Bostyn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 644 people named Bostyn (450 women and girls, 194 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 759 |
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 Bostyn born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Utah | 5 | #726 | 8.2× |
Where Bostyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bostyn is most over-represented in Utah: since 2003 it was given 8.2 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 girls’ 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 Bostyn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,112 babies since 1880, Bostyn is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 61 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bostyn
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 Bostyn and names like it
- Compare Bostyn and BostynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sBostyn peaked in 2016.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bostyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Bostyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bostyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.