Meaning not yet researched.
Boone: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 762 in 2025. Its best rank was #423 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 Boone in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#423 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Boone: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 762 boys in 2025. Peak: #423 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 762 (2025).
In 2025, 762 US boys were named Boone, making it the 423rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 111 places from #534 in 2024. That is 204 more than the 558 boys named Boone in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #423, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 762. For comparison, it was #944 in 2015 and #2,600 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Boone in 87 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 6,892 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,234 babies named Boone.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,645 US boys were named Boone; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 762. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,242 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Boone ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #99 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Bon, Boen and Boon 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: Bon (274), Boen (123), Boon (20), Boun (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 Boone 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 12 | #99 | — |
| South Dakota | 11 | #117 | — |
| Utah | 35 | #151 | #690 |
| Idaho | 16 | #168 | #317 |
| Nebraska | 16 | #174 | #316 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #186 | #457 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #195 | — |
| Arkansas | 18 | #199 | — |
| Iowa | 19 | #207 | #571 |
| Oklahoma | 23 | #211 | — |
| Kentucky | 25 | #222 | #356 |
| Wisconsin | 25 | #235 | #774 |
| Kansas | 15 | #249 | — |
| Missouri | 26 | #264 | #664 |
| Ohio | 47 | #266 | #731 |
| Indiana | 31 | #267 | #806 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #288 | — |
| Michigan | 28 | #325 | #994 |
| Oregon | 12 | #332 | #426 |
| North Carolina | 34 | #339 | #903 |
| Alabama | 15 | #361 | #521 |
| Georgia | 30 | #387 | #845 |
| Colorado | 16 | #389 | — |
| Minnesota | 14 | #395 | #643 |
| Washington | 14 | #508 | — |
| Texas | 60 | #539 | #880 |
| Arizona | 12 | #563 | — |
| Illinois | 14 | #641 | — |
| Florida | 25 | #650 | #1,550 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #707 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #740 | #1,009 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #791 | — |
| California | 31 | #798 | #1,778 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 762 | #423 |
| 2024 | — | — | 558 | #534 |
| 2023 | — | — | 475 | #596 |
| 2022 | — | — | 468 | #602 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,656 | 488 | #573 |
| 2020 | — | — | 478 | #581 |
| 2019 | — | — | 402 | #657 |
| 2018 | — | — | 379 | #666 |
| 2017 | — | — | 337 | #718 |
| 2016 | — | — | 298 | #794 |
| 2015 | — | — | 222 | #944 |
| 2014 | — | — | 195 | #1,035 |
| 2013 | — | — | 158 | #1,145 |
| 2012 | — | — | 128 | #1,329 |
| 2011 | — | — | 93 | #1,636 |
| 2010 | — | — | 88 | #1,727 |
| 2009 | — | — | 88 | #1,742 |
| 2008 | — | — | 70 | #2,007 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,188 |
| 2006 | — | — | 51 | #2,408 |
| 2005 | — | — | 53 | #2,240 |
| 2004 | — | — | 31 | #3,167 |
| 2003 | — | — | 37 | #2,677 |
| 2002 | — | — | 36 | #2,638 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,623 |
| 2000 | — | — | 33 | #2,745 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,189 |
| 1998 | — | — | 33 | #2,560 |
| 1997 | — | — | 27 | #2,830 |
| 1996 | — | — | 34 | #2,334 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,629 |
| 1994 | — | — | 39 | #2,086 |
| 1993 | — | — | 24 | #2,878 |
| 1992 | — | — | 37 | #2,091 |
| 1991 | — | — | 21 | #3,001 |
| 1990 | — | — | 22 | #2,875 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,215 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,376 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,278 |
| 1986 | — | — | 27 | #2,101 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,729 |
| 1984 | — | — | 36 | #1,635 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,252 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,309 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,794 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,737 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,590 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,193 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,059 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,516 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,460 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,969 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,036 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,008 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,282 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,631 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #3,722 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,104 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,128 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,883 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,600 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,180 |
| 1940 | — | — | 7 | #2,904 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,473 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,580 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,889 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,037 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,872 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,059 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,599 |
| 1928 | — | — | 13 | #2,282 |
| 1927 | — | — | 11 | #2,543 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,754 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,787 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,296 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #2,970 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,909 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,006 |
| 1920 | — | — | 15 | #2,148 |
| 1919 | — | — | 12 | #2,397 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,413 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #2,956 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,448 |
| 1913 | — | — | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,762 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,149 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #989 |
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).