first name
BOY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 18,094 people named Boy, 49.2% reported their origin as White, 26.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 16.1% as Black. 99.3% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Boy peaked in 2019, when 42 babies got the name.
At least 923 babies have been given the name since 1900. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Boy by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #3,900. The largest share of babies named Boy, 39.2%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Either side of Boy
Spelled almost the same
7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Boy, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Boy ranks #7,908 of 156,621, with 4,027 people. See Boy as a last name
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