Bb
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bb has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1998. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Bb, 2021
1 in 565,000
Bb over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bb?
Bb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bb sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bbs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bb was born before 2000 — so the typical Bb is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 32.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 55
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Bb rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (18)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 83.6% average annual change
Where Bb is used
Across 1910–2025, Bb was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 60,379 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bb has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Bb by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bb
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bb
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.