Boe
#3,317 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Boe has been given to 1,101 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #3,317 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 40 recorded.
Babies named Boe, 2025
1 in 94,700
Boe 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Boe?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 48,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,317
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Boe sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Boes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Boe was born before 2010 — so the typical Boe is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 31.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,079
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (337).
Is Boe 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
- +213
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +508
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −393
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.88×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 87.5%
- Peak was 2015 (40)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.2% average annual change
Where Boe is used
Across 1910–2025, Boe was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 783,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in —
- 2Ohio1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 in —
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. Boe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Boe around the world
Where Boe 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 & Wales2006–2025#4,275in 2025
- Canada1995–2024#1,964in 2024
- South Australia1981–2013#754in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Boe by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Boe
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Boe
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.