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Boaz

#891 in 2025Boys' name

In him + strength, through בעז

Boaz has been given to 3,476 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #891 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Boaz, 2025

1 in 12,400

Boaz over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Boaz: meaning, origin, and history

In him + strength, through בעז

Hebrew

What Boaz means

Boaz belongs to the name family reached through Boaz → בעז. Its meaning is “in him + strength”.

Origin, language, and formation

Boaz is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Boaz comes through Biblical Hebrew בעז.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include בעז.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Boaz is pronounced /ˈboʊ.əz/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,476 boys were recorded with the name Boaz between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 2025; its best national rank was #891 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,111 in 2020 to #891 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,308 in 2015 to #891 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Boaz?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,400
268 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 6,370
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#891
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,575 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Boaz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,575 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Boazs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Boaz was born before 2017 — so the typical Boaz is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,471
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (1,342).

Is Boaz 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
+120
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+220
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+417
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.99×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (268)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#891
2025

Spellings of Boaz

Boaz is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 59.8% against Boaz's 0.39%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Boaz is used

Across 2016–2025, Boaz was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 2,857 boys, against 1 in 8,949 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 2,857
  2. 2Idaho1 in 3,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 4,000
  4. 4Iowa1 in 5,000
  5. 5Kansas1 in 5,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 5,263
  7. 7Colorado1 in 5,556
  8. 8Michigan1 in 5,882

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.

Boaz around the world

Where Boaz ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #763
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • France
    2002–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #720
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Boaz

People whose public names include Boaz, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Boaz in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Boaz. Linked forms have their own page here.

Boas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Boaz by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#891
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 220
Best rank ever
#891
2025
Peak year
2025
268 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,476
Count in 2025
268

Names similar to Boaz

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MoazBoady

Names with a curve like Boaz

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Boaz, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KabirOsirisAdlerLaithLevJosiasKhaiAlistairHarlemGatlinZeusKyren

Sibling names for Boaz

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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