Meaning not yet researched.
Boyd: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #228 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #228 in 1899; #1,959 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Boyd in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,959 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #228.
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Boyd: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 boys in 2025. Peak: #228 in 1899 · most boys in one year: 508 (1922).
In 2025, 78 US boys were named Boyd, making it the 1,959th most common boys’ name of the year, up 253 places from #2,212 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 65 boys named Boyd in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #228, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 508, in 1922. For comparison, it was #1,828 in 2015 and #365 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Boyd in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 16 babies with the name. In all, 27,745 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,595 babies named Boyd.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 967 US boys were named Boyd; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,898 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Boyd ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #721 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Bud (9,502 babies since 1880) and Bode (4,759 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Budd, Boyde and Bohde 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Budd (1,090), Boyde (81), Bohde (38), Boede (23), Boyed (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 Boyd 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 5 | #721 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #797 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #1,876 | #1,717 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,932 | #2,152 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 78 | #1,959 |
| 2024 | — | — | 65 | #2,212 |
| 2023 | — | — | 67 | #2,151 |
| 2022 | — | — | 107 | #1,628 |
| 2021 | — | — | 106 | #1,606 |
| 2020 | — | — | 109 | #1,528 |
| 2019 | — | — | 97 | #1,659 |
| 2018 | — | — | 117 | #1,480 |
| 2017 | — | — | 122 | #1,422 |
| 2016 | — | — | 99 | #1,619 |
| 2015 | — | — | 81 | #1,828 |
| 2014 | — | — | 99 | #1,588 |
| 2013 | — | — | 75 | #1,881 |
| 2012 | — | — | 73 | #1,943 |
| 2011 | — | — | 44 | #2,707 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,519 |
| 2009 | — | — | 43 | #2,804 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2007 | — | — | 63 | #2,141 |
| 2006 | — | — | 38 | #2,937 |
| 2005 | — | — | 43 | #2,571 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,495 |
| 2003 | — | — | 43 | #2,435 |
| 2002 | — | — | 51 | #2,094 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,433 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,336 |
| 1999 | — | — | 41 | #2,235 |
| 1998 | — | — | 45 | #2,069 |
| 1997 | — | — | 63 | #1,601 |
| 1996 | — | — | 51 | #1,785 |
| 1995 | — | — | 53 | #1,683 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,581 |
| 1993 | — | — | 55 | #1,620 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,546 |
| 1991 | — | — | 57 | #1,528 |
| 1990 | — | — | 64 | #1,396 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,591 |
| 1988 | — | — | 54 | #1,429 |
| 1987 | — | — | 54 | #1,369 |
| 1986 | — | — | 67 | #1,155 |
| 1985 | — | — | 79 | #1,034 |
| 1984 | — | — | 76 | #1,024 |
| 1983 | — | — | 68 | #1,079 |
| 1982 | — | — | 100 | #894 |
| 1981 | — | — | 96 | #914 |
| 1980 | — | — | 98 | #905 |
| 1979 | — | — | 102 | #858 |
| 1978 | — | — | 102 | #847 |
| 1977 | — | — | 115 | #796 |
| 1976 | — | — | 111 | #786 |
| 1975 | — | — | 137 | #707 |
| 1974 | — | — | 150 | #659 |
| 1973 | — | — | 148 | #656 |
| 1972 | — | — | 154 | #639 |
| 1971 | — | — | 185 | #615 |
| 1970 | — | — | 273 | #490 |
| 1969 | — | — | 251 | #484 |
| 1968 | — | — | 271 | #462 |
| 1967 | — | — | 251 | #476 |
| 1966 | — | — | 265 | #470 |
| 1965 | — | — | 285 | #460 |
| 1964 | — | — | 337 | #435 |
| 1963 | — | — | 339 | #433 |
| 1962 | — | — | 408 | #401 |
| 1961 | — | — | 355 | #421 |
| 1960 | — | — | 370 | #410 |
| 1959 | — | — | 377 | #408 |
| 1958 | — | — | 365 | #409 |
| 1957 | — | — | 388 | #390 |
| 1956 | — | — | 377 | #386 |
| 1955 | — | — | 369 | #376 |
| 1954 | — | — | 343 | #385 |
| 1953 | — | — | 390 | #350 |
| 1952 | — | — | 397 | #345 |
| 1951 | — | — | 365 | #361 |
| 1950 | — | — | 342 | #365 |
| 1949 | — | — | 345 | #362 |
| 1948 | — | — | 354 | #358 |
| 1947 | — | — | 427 | #334 |
| 1946 | — | — | 362 | #340 |
| 1945 | — | — | 318 | #335 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,637 | 345 | #325 |
| 1943 | — | — | 405 | #307 |
| 1942 | — | — | 393 | #310 |
| 1941 | — | — | 412 | #285 |
| 1940 | — | — | 374 | #290 |
| 1939 | — | — | 361 | #290 |
| 1938 | — | — | 413 | #271 |
| 1937 | — | — | 419 | #264 |
| 1936 | — | — | 356 | #285 |
| 1935 | — | — | 351 | #289 |
| 1934 | — | — | 398 | #272 |
| 1933 | — | — | 406 | #264 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,496 | 397 | #274 |
| 1931 | — | — | 426 | #262 |
| 1930 | — | — | 430 | #272 |
| 1929 | — | — | 461 | #261 |
| 1928 | — | — | 445 | #269 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,316 | 440 | #271 |
| 1926 | — | — | 432 | #273 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,706 | 493 | #256 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,435 | 459 | #266 |
| 1923 | — | — | 429 | #272 |
| 1922 | — | — | 508 | #248 |
| 1921 | — | — | 438 | #267 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,010 | 457 | #256 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,837 | 415 | #261 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,912 | 433 | #255 |
| 1917 | — | — | 388 | #257 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,982 | 384 | #252 |
| 1915 | — | — | 335 | #264 |
| 1914 | — | — | 287 | #254 |
| 1913 | — | — | 197 | #278 |
| 1912 | — | — | 171 | #268 |
| 1911 | — | — | 85 | #286 |
| 1910 | — | — | 86 | #263 |
| 1909 | — | — | 68 | #269 |
| 1908 | — | — | 61 | #274 |
| 1907 | — | — | 54 | #286 |
| 1906 | — | — | 54 | #266 |
| 1905 | — | — | 40 | #316 |
| 1904 | — | — | 46 | #278 |
| 1903 | — | — | 41 | #294 |
| 1902 | — | — | 42 | #293 |
| 1901 | — | — | 42 | #265 |
| 1900 | — | — | 62 | #260 |
| 1899 | — | — | 53 | #228 |
| 1898 | — | — | 34 | #329 |
| 1897 | — | — | 37 | #300 |
| 1896 | — | — | 34 | #325 |
| 1895 | — | — | 31 | #330 |
| 1894 | — | — | 46 | #256 |
| 1893 | — | — | 35 | #292 |
| 1892 | — | — | 37 | #304 |
| 1891 | — | — | 29 | #309 |
| 1890 | — | — | 35 | #290 |
| 1889 | — | — | 47 | #237 |
| 1888 | — | — | 41 | #281 |
| 1887 | — | — | 26 | #325 |
| 1886 | — | — | 43 | #259 |
| 1885 | — | — | 40 | #263 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #360 |
| 1883 | — | — | 21 | #373 |
| 1882 | — | — | 29 | #318 |
| 1881 | — | — | 24 | #332 |
| 1880 | — | — | 16 | #443 |
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).