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Boone

#423 in 2025Boys' name

Good

Boone has been given to 6,892 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #423 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 762 recorded.

Babies named Boone, 2025

1 in 4,350

Boone over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Boone: meaning, origin, and history

Good

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Boone means

Boone means “good”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,887 boys were recorded with the name Boone between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 762 in 2025; its best national rank was #423 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #581 in 2020 to #423 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #944 in 2015 to #423 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Boone between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #15,651 in 2021.

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.

How common is Boone?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,350
762 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,240
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#423
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,017 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Boone 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 1002%
School of 50011%

Put another way: gather 3,017 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boone. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Boones were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Boone was born before 2019 — so the typical Boone is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (3,229).

Is Boone 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
+111
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+158
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+521
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (762)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#423
2025

Spellings of Boone

Boone is not the most common spelling — Booker is, with 17.2% against Boone's 9.7%.

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 Boone is used

Across 2016–2025, Boone was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 752 boys, against 1 in 3,297 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

2133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 752
  2. 2Wyoming1 in 1,010
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 1,020
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 1,111
  5. 5Iowa1 in 1,149
  6. 6Missouri1 in 1,316
  7. 7Utah1 in 1,333
  8. 8Idaho1 in 1,351

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.

Geographically, Boone is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 71% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Boone around the world

Where Boone 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,232
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Notable people named Boone

People whose public names include Boone, 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.

Boone by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#423
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 158
Best rank ever
#423
2025
Peak year
2025
762 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,887
Count in 2025
762

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,651
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Boone

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

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Names with a curve like Boone

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

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Sibling names for Boone

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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