Bowie — #1208 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Bowie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,070 babies named Bowie between 1920 and 2024, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Bowie currently holds the #1208 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 237 babies received it in a single year. Bowie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,168 additional births since 2006.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Bowie performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 971 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Bowie shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 392 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Bowie in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Bowie 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 2,070 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.