Meaning not yet researched.
Boris: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #874 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #874 in 1962; #3,189 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Boris in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,189 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #874.
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Boris: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #874 in 1962 · most boys in one year: 82 (1970).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Boris, making it the 3,189th most common boys’ name of the year, up 152 places from #3,341 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 35 boys named Boris in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #874, reached in 1962. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 1970. For comparison, it was #2,532 in 2015 and #2,601 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Boris in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 4,621 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 603 babies named Boris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 428 US boys were named Boris; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Burris and Borys 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, Galician, Hungarian and Slovene. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Burris (162), Borys (23).
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 Boris in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,189 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,341 |
| 2023 | — | — | 32 | #3,577 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,421 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,922 |
| 2020 | — | — | 50 | #2,552 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,662 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,478 |
| 2017 | — | — | 51 | #2,495 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,629 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,532 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,375 |
| 2013 | — | — | 64 | #2,092 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,598 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,549 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,584 |
| 2009 | — | — | 46 | #2,667 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,952 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,536 |
| 2006 | — | — | 65 | #2,038 |
| 2005 | — | — | 61 | #2,036 |
| 2004 | — | — | 65 | #1,883 |
| 2003 | — | — | 52 | #2,129 |
| 2002 | — | — | 59 | #1,894 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,960 |
| 2000 | — | — | 56 | #1,877 |
| 1999 | — | — | 52 | #1,880 |
| 1998 | — | — | 62 | #1,667 |
| 1997 | — | — | 53 | #1,795 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,819 |
| 1995 | — | — | 72 | #1,393 |
| 1994 | — | — | 65 | #1,471 |
| 1993 | — | — | 59 | #1,541 |
| 1992 | — | — | 65 | #1,417 |
| 1991 | — | — | 71 | #1,336 |
| 1990 | — | — | 54 | #1,547 |
| 1989 | — | — | 47 | #1,660 |
| 1988 | — | — | 36 | #1,855 |
| 1987 | — | — | 54 | #1,368 |
| 1986 | — | — | 36 | #1,728 |
| 1985 | — | — | 40 | #1,597 |
| 1984 | — | — | 38 | #1,581 |
| 1983 | — | — | 45 | #1,399 |
| 1982 | — | — | 36 | #1,655 |
| 1981 | — | — | 38 | #1,580 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,814 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,676 |
| 1978 | — | — | 35 | #1,599 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,747 |
| 1976 | — | — | 43 | #1,351 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,382 |
| 1974 | — | — | 54 | #1,116 |
| 1973 | — | — | 51 | #1,149 |
| 1972 | — | — | 54 | #1,108 |
| 1971 | — | — | 58 | #1,070 |
| 1970 | — | — | 82 | #891 |
| 1969 | — | — | 66 | #944 |
| 1968 | — | — | 59 | #946 |
| 1967 | — | — | 56 | #969 |
| 1966 | — | — | 61 | #932 |
| 1965 | — | — | 54 | #1,000 |
| 1964 | — | — | 63 | #959 |
| 1963 | — | — | 62 | #957 |
| 1962 | — | — | 76 | #874 |
| 1961 | — | — | 63 | #970 |
| 1960 | — | — | 37 | #1,298 |
| 1959 | — | — | 46 | #1,142 |
| 1958 | — | — | 43 | #1,173 |
| 1957 | — | — | 34 | #1,347 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,236 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,339 |
| 1954 | — | — | 20 | #1,713 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,716 |
| 1952 | — | — | 26 | #1,487 |
| 1951 | — | — | 19 | #1,730 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,601 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,035 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,629 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,924 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,157 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,414 |
| 1944 | — | — | 7 | #2,889 |
| 1943 | — | — | 9 | #2,579 |
| 1942 | — | — | 10 | #2,396 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,916 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,196 |
| 1939 | — | — | 15 | #1,801 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,092 |
| 1937 | — | — | 21 | #1,488 |
| 1936 | — | — | 15 | #1,810 |
| 1935 | — | — | 21 | #1,497 |
| 1934 | — | — | 28 | #1,270 |
| 1933 | — | — | 23 | #1,409 |
| 1932 | — | — | 34 | #1,159 |
| 1931 | — | — | 35 | #1,149 |
| 1930 | — | — | 33 | #1,237 |
| 1929 | — | — | 35 | #1,178 |
| 1928 | — | — | 29 | #1,356 |
| 1927 | — | — | 34 | #1,251 |
| 1926 | — | — | 33 | #1,264 |
| 1925 | — | — | 41 | #1,091 |
| 1924 | — | — | 37 | #1,191 |
| 1923 | — | — | 50 | #980 |
| 1922 | — | — | 40 | #1,121 |
| 1921 | — | — | 45 | #1,047 |
| 1920 | — | — | 29 | #1,351 |
| 1919 | — | — | 24 | #1,487 |
| 1918 | — | — | 44 | #1,013 |
| 1917 | — | — | 36 | #1,117 |
| 1916 | — | — | 35 | #1,098 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,270 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,395 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,816 |
| 1912 | — | — | 13 | #1,366 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,773 |
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).