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Bosco

#3,189 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Bosco has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #3,189 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Bosco, 2025

1 in 89,600

Bosco over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bosco: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bosco means

Bosco is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Bosco is used in Spanish, Portuguese, French (African) and Italian (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈbos.ko/ and /ˈbɔ.sko/ for Bosco.

The naming story behind Bosco

Bosco is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

Origin, language, and formation

Bosco is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 432 boys were recorded with the name Bosco between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,189 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,440 in 2020 to #3,189 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,089 in 2015 to #3,189 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 Bosco?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,189
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bosco 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bosco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Boscos were born

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

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
432
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.0% of all recorded uses (203).

Is Bosco 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
+513
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,251
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+900
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.48×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (37)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,189
2025

Spellings of Bosco

Bosco is not the most common spelling — Rocco is, with 40.7% against Bosco's 0.56%.

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 Bosco is used

Across 1910–2025, Bosco was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 280,382 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Bosco has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bosco around the world

Where Bosco 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
    2008–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1971–1971
    #280
    in 1971
  • France
    1994–2025
    #864
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2011
    #487
    in 2011

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

Bosco by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,189
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,251
Best rank ever
#3,189
2025
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
432
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Bosco

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

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Sibling names for Bosco

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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