Meaning not yet researched.
Boaz: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 268 in 2025. Its best rank was #891 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Boaz in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#891 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Boaz: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 268 boys in 2025. Peak: #891 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 268 (2025).
In 2025, 268 US boys were named Boaz, making it the 891st most common boys’ name of the year, up 120 places from #1,011 in 2024. That is 47 more than the 221 boys named Boaz in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #891, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 268. For comparison, it was #1,308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Boaz in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1928 with 5 babies. In all, 3,476 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,342 babies named Boaz.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,025 US boys were named Boaz; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 268. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,373 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Boaz ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #348 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Boss, Buzz and Buz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Boss (451), Buzz (280), Buz (29), Bose (20), Boz (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 Boaz 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 18 | #348 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #381 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #526 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #630 | #592 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #635 | #1,051 |
| Virginia | 11 | #636 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #640 | #835 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #654 | #803 |
| Michigan | 11 | #682 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #717 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #754 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #815 | #858 |
| Maryland | 5 | #820 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #851 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #862 | #1,225 |
| Illinois | 9 | #876 | #1,342 |
| Texas | 24 | #980 | #1,459 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,004 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,045 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,205 | #1,126 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,497 | #1,392 |
| New York | 5 | #1,800 | #1,655 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 268 | #891 |
| 2024 | — | — | 221 | #1,011 |
| 2023 | — | — | 239 | #947 |
| 2022 | — | — | 220 | #1,012 |
| 2021 | — | — | 217 | #1,010 |
| 2020 | — | — | 177 | #1,111 |
| 2019 | — | — | 191 | #1,066 |
| 2018 | — | — | 179 | #1,096 |
| 2017 | — | — | 150 | #1,220 |
| 2016 | — | — | 163 | #1,170 |
| 2015 | — | — | 135 | #1,308 |
| 2014 | — | — | 117 | #1,428 |
| 2013 | — | — | 126 | #1,345 |
| 2012 | — | — | 93 | #1,660 |
| 2011 | — | — | 81 | #1,781 |
| 2010 | — | — | 80 | #1,816 |
| 2009 | — | — | 81 | #1,827 |
| 2008 | — | — | 54 | #2,376 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,378 |
| 2006 | — | — | 58 | #2,205 |
| 2005 | — | — | 54 | #2,210 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,317 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,851 |
| 2002 | — | — | 38 | #2,563 |
| 2001 | — | — | 25 | #3,419 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,924 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,188 |
| 1998 | — | — | 22 | #3,399 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,693 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,036 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,076 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,138 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,155 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,013 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,476 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,027 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,295 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,516 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,019 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,674 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,743 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,026 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,553 |
| 1982 | — | — | 11 | #3,714 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,010 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #3,879 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,587 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,197 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,047 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,560 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,816 |
| 1972 | — | — | 8 | #3,657 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,281 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,595 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,974 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,219 |
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).