Boy
About 923 American babies have been named Boy since 1900, most of them around 2019. In 2025 it ranked 5,208th. About 870 Boys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Boy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 923
- Estimated living today
- 870
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 2,897th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,208th
- First recorded
- 1900
How old the living Boys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 923 babies given the name since 1900, about 870 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Boys
- Boy George (born 1961)British musician
- Boy Waterman (born 1984)Dutch footballer
- Boy Charlton (1907–1975)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Boy Hayje (born 1949)Dutch racing driver
- Boy van Poppel (born 1988)Dutch racing cyclist
- Boy Gobert (1925–1986)German actor
People named Boy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Boy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Boy is most concentrated in North Dakota (59.4×), Georgia (3.5×), Texas (3.4×), Ohio (3.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular boys’ names the year Boy peaked:
Boy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Boy | 10 | 4,864th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Boy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Boy | 1,946 | 2,530 |
| the Netherlands girls | Boy | — | 19 |
| Finland boys | Boy | 7 | 18 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Boy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.