Boyd
Boyd was given to 78 boys in 2025, #1,959 among boys’ names; 27,745 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,400 Americans named Boyd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 44 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boyd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Boyd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Boyd is “a male given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the sense “blond, yellow, fair” (buidhe).
From Scottish Gaelic, either buidhe (“blond, yellow, fair”), or a habitational surname from the Isle of Bute in Scotland.
/bɔɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Boyd?
#1,959 among boys’ names, 2025
Boyd fell from #1,828 in 2015 to #1,959 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 42.3 to 45.7 per million.
508 babies in 1922, the peak
Boyd peaked in 1922, when 508 boys were given it, #248 among boys’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #1,959 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,212 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,150 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,628 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,606 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,528 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,659 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,480 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,619 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 81 | #1,828 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 99 | #1,588 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 75 | #1,880 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 73 | #1,942 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,518 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,803 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 63 | #2,141 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,936 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,567 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 44 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,431 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,090 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,429 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,332 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,232 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,066 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 63 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 51 | #1,781 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,678 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,576 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 55 | #1,615 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 57 | #1,541 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 57 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 64 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,586 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,424 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 54 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 79 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 100 | #894 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 96 | #914 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 98 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 102 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 102 | #847 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 115 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 111 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 137 | #707 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 150 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 148 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 154 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 185 | #615 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 273 | #490 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 251 | #484 | 0.14 |
| 1968 | 271 | #462 | 0.16 |
| 1967 | 251 | #476 | 0.14 |
| 1966 | 265 | #470 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 285 | #460 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 337 | #435 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 339 | #433 | 0.17 |
| 1962 | 408 | #401 | 0.20 |
| 1961 | 355 | #421 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 370 | #410 | 0.17 |
| 1959 | 377 | #408 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 365 | #409 | 0.17 |
| 1957 | 388 | #389 | 0.18 |
| 1956 | 377 | #385 | 0.18 |
| 1955 | 369 | #375 | 0.18 |
| 1954 | 343 | #384 | 0.17 |
| 1953 | 390 | #349 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 397 | #344 | 0.20 |
| 1951 | 365 | #360 | 0.19 |
| 1950 | 342 | #364 | 0.19 |
| 1949 | 345 | #362 | 0.19 |
| 1948 | 354 | #358 | 0.20 |
| 1947 | 427 | #334 | 0.23 |
| 1946 | 362 | #340 | 0.22 |
| 1945 | 318 | #335 | 0.24 |
| 1944 | 345 | #325 | 0.25 |
| 1943 | 405 | #307 | 0.28 |
| 1942 | 393 | #310 | 0.28 |
| 1941 | 412 | #285 | 0.34 |
| 1940 | 374 | #290 | 0.32 |
| 1939 | 361 | #290 | 0.33 |
| 1938 | 413 | #271 | 0.37 |
| 1937 | 419 | #264 | 0.39 |
| 1936 | 356 | #285 | 0.34 |
| 1935 | 351 | #289 | 0.34 |
| 1934 | 398 | #272 | 0.39 |
| 1933 | 406 | #264 | 0.41 |
| 1932 | 397 | #274 | 0.38 |
| 1931 | 426 | #262 | 0.41 |
| 1930 | 430 | #272 | 0.39 |
| 1929 | 461 | #261 | 0.43 |
| 1928 | 445 | #269 | 0.40 |
| 1927 | 440 | #271 | 0.39 |
| 1926 | 432 | #273 | 0.39 |
| 1925 | 493 | #256 | 0.44 |
| 1924 | 459 | #266 | 0.41 |
| 1923 | 429 | #272 | 0.39 |
| 1922 | 508 | #248 | 0.47 |
| 1921 | 438 | #267 | 0.40 |
| 1920 | 457 | #256 | 0.43 |
| 1919 | 415 | #261 | 0.42 |
| 1918 | 433 | #255 | 0.43 |
| 1917 | 388 | #257 | 0.42 |
| 1916 | 384 | #252 | 0.43 |
| 1915 | 335 | #264 | 0.39 |
| 1914 | 287 | #254 | 0.44 |
| 1913 | 197 | #278 | 0.38 |
| 1912 | 171 | #268 | 0.40 |
| 1911 | 85 | #286 | 0.38 |
| 1910 | 86 | #263 | 0.44 |
| 1909 | 68 | #269 | 0.41 |
| 1908 | 61 | #274 | 0.40 |
| 1907 | 54 | #286 | 0.37 |
| 1906 | 54 | #266 | 0.41 |
| 1905 | 40 | #316 | 0.30 |
| 1904 | 46 | #278 | 0.36 |
| 1903 | 41 | #294 | 0.34 |
| 1902 | 42 | #293 | 0.34 |
| 1901 | 42 | #265 | 0.39 |
| 1900 | 62 | #260 | 0.41 |
| 1899 | 53 | #228 | 0.50 |
| 1898 | 34 | #329 | 0.28 |
| 1897 | 37 | #300 | 0.33 |
| 1896 | 34 | #325 | 0.28 |
| 1895 | 31 | #330 | 0.26 |
| 1894 | 46 | #256 | 0.40 |
| 1893 | 35 | #292 | 0.31 |
| 1892 | 37 | #304 | 0.30 |
| 1891 | 29 | #309 | 0.29 |
| 1890 | 35 | #290 | 0.32 |
| 1889 | 47 | #237 | 0.43 |
| 1888 | 41 | #281 | 0.34 |
| 1887 | 26 | #325 | 0.26 |
| 1886 | 43 | #259 | 0.39 |
| 1885 | 40 | #263 | 0.37 |
| 1884 | 24 | #360 | 0.21 |
| 1883 | 21 | #373 | 0.20 |
| 1882 | 29 | #318 | 0.26 |
| 1881 | 24 | #332 | 0.24 |
| 1880 | 16 | #443 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Boyd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boyd has been given almost only to boys: 65 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Boyd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boyd, and how old are they?
11,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 41% of the 27,745 Americans ever recorded as Boyd. The median Boyd alive today is 62 years old; half are between 44 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 12,377 people named Boyd (58 women and girls, 12,319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,878 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,320 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4,620 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,520 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 984 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 759 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
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 Boyd born?
The states with the most babies named Boyd are Texas, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,572 | #1,932 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 1,501 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,486 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 1,385 | not ranked | 7.3× |
| Kentucky | 1,175 | #721 | 2.0× |
| California | 1,062 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 1,050 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| West Virginia | 840 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Ohio | 834 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 794 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Boyd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Boyd is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 7.3 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 Boyd 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 Boyd
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 Boyd and names like it
- Compare Boyd and MeltonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sBoyd peaked in 1922.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boyd since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Boyd: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Boyd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Boyd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.