Meaning not yet researched.
Bostyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,806 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,806 in 2016; #3,655 in 2025. About 75% of babies named Bostyn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,655 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,806.
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Bostyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,806 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 61 (2016).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Bostyn, making it the 3,655th most common girls’ name of the year, down 307 places from #3,348 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 47 girls named Bostyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,806, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #3,780 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Bostyn, making it the 6,185th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,269 places from #4,916 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 20 boys named Bostyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,642, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 20, in 2024. For comparison, it was #5,542 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bostyn in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 11 babies. In all, 1,038 US babies have been given the name, 71% of them girls and 29% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 569 babies named Bostyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 437 US girls were named Bostyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Boston (11,944 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Bostyn 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 | 41 | #3,655 | 14 | #6,185 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,348 | 20 | #4,916 |
| 2023 | 44 | #3,533 | 18 | #5,279 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,901 | 10 | #7,837 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,032 | 18 | #5,141 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,281 | 16 | #5,487 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,231 | 14 | #6,144 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,014 | 18 | #5,135 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,156 | 14 | #6,095 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,806 | 16 | #5,593 |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,780 | 16 | #5,542 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,729 | 16 | #5,508 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,084 | 20 | #4,642 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,309 | 8 | #8,970 |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,852 | 19 | #4,839 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,637 | 15 | #5,772 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,138 | 9 | #8,380 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,124 | 12 | #6,805 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,162 | 10 | #7,662 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,934 | 5 | #12,269 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,983 | — | — |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,119 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,123 | 5 | #11,087 |
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).