Meaning not yet researched.
Bo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 698 in 2025. Its best rank was #449 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 96% of babies named Bo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#449 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Bo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 698 boys in 2025. Peak: #449 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 698 (2025).
In 2025, 698 US boys were named Bo, making it the 449th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3 places from #452 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 692 boys named Bo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #449, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 698. For comparison, it was #618 in 2015 and #2,599 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bo in 97 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 5 babies. In all, 15,849 US babies have been given the name, 5.5% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,089 babies named Bo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,645 US boys were named Bo; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 698. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Bo ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #176 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Boe, Boy and Boa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Boe (1,101), Boy (923), Boa (9), Boey (8), Boyu (5), Bou (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 7 | #176 | — |
| Utah | 28 | #193 | #511 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #194 | #218 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #202 | #333 |
| Tennessee | 41 | #218 | #294 |
| Oregon | 18 | #231 | #562 |
| Idaho | 10 | #259 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #269 | #438 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #277 | #431 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #286 | — |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #288 | #456 |
| Missouri | 23 | #292 | #347 |
| Iowa | 13 | #296 | #230 |
| Ohio | 39 | #308 | #512 |
| Alabama | 17 | #317 | #450 |
| Washington | 22 | #337 | #642 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #350 | #406 |
| Indiana | 21 | #352 | #357 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #353 | #417 |
| Kansas | 10 | #354 | #335 |
| Colorado | 17 | #367 | #522 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #373 | #424 |
| Michigan | 23 | #376 | #454 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #415 | #658 |
| Georgia | 27 | #416 | #424 |
| Virginia | 14 | #529 | #587 |
| Illinois | 17 | #546 | #711 |
| Arizona | 12 | #562 | #733 |
| Texas | 56 | #569 | #837 |
| California | 48 | #608 | #879 |
| Florida | 26 | #634 | #1,037 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #704 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #716 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #719 | #533 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #753 | #594 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #785 | #839 |
| New York | 12 | #1,003 | #1,370 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,570 | 698 | #449 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,679 | 692 | #452 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,583 | 633 | #478 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,689 | 614 | #497 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,627 | 622 | #480 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,894 | 525 | #540 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,458 | 493 | #566 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,369 | 483 | #572 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,860 | 432 | #610 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,020 | 453 | #595 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,029 | 434 | #618 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,127 | 414 | #633 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,164 | 318 | #733 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,642 | 290 | #782 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,896 | 293 | #764 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,954 | 256 | #834 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,736 | 289 | #784 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,385 | 262 | #834 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,358 | 286 | #767 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,838 | 268 | #775 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,046 | 259 | #764 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,356 | 204 | #862 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,847 | 183 | #909 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,494 | 159 | #988 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,236 | 160 | #958 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,389 | 152 | #978 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,600 | 185 | #826 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,371 | 176 | #834 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,022 | 153 | #901 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,904 | 191 | #769 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,155 | 173 | #813 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,748 | 193 | #758 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,989 | 229 | #677 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,052 | 276 | #621 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,636 | 282 | #605 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,588 | 277 | #603 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,324 | 215 | #680 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,357 | 172 | #713 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,878 | 186 | #671 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,481 | 174 | #685 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,476 | 153 | #715 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,177 | 201 | #600 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,704 | 138 | #735 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,366 | 160 | #684 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,258 | 237 | #551 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,873 | 232 | #568 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,372 | 101 | #866 |
| 1978 | — | — | 73 | #1,014 |
| 1977 | — | — | 77 | #975 |
| 1976 | — | — | 59 | #1,100 |
| 1975 | — | — | 51 | #1,183 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,247 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,546 | 50 | #1,165 |
| 1972 | — | — | 49 | #1,163 |
| 1971 | — | — | 36 | #1,417 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,749 |
| 1969 | — | — | 29 | #1,498 |
| 1968 | — | — | 25 | #1,579 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,659 |
| 1966 | — | — | 27 | #1,484 |
| 1965 | — | — | 18 | #1,863 |
| 1964 | — | — | 23 | #1,658 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,376 |
| 1962 | — | — | 26 | #1,549 |
| 1961 | — | — | 29 | #1,499 |
| 1960 | — | — | 27 | #1,556 |
| 1959 | — | — | 24 | #1,625 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,732 |
| 1957 | — | — | 12 | #2,383 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,375 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,586 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,120 |
| 1953 | — | — | 15 | #2,051 |
| 1952 | — | — | 13 | #2,161 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,511 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,599 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,034 |
| 1948 | — | — | 10 | #2,458 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,897 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,021 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,654 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,502 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,602 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,703 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,406 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,052 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #2,933 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,954 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,316 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,373 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,246 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,784 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,404 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,568 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,365 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).