How rare is the name Boyd?

12,377 people in the United States have the first name Boyd, about 1 in 24,403. It ranks #2,154 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

BOYD

#2,154

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,377
About
1 in 24,403
This common or more
78.7%
Who bears it

Of the 12,377 people named Boyd, 88.5% reported their origin as White, 4.7% as Black and 3% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Boyd peaked in 1922, when 508 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1922
Births that year
508
In 2025*
78 ▼85%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 27,745 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Boyd by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1920s, when it ranked #573. The largest share of babies named Boyd, 25.7%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#655311
1890s#742371
1900s#741510
1910s#5852,803
1920s#5734,595
1930s#5873,962
1940s#7163,740
1950s#8393,713
1960s#9793,132
1970s#1,5491,477
1980s#2,636742
1990s#4,036544
2000s#5,691457
2010s#3,949856
2020s#3,858532
Before 19012.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2725%
Silent Generation 1928–4525.7%
Baby boom 1946–6425.3%
Generation X 1965–8010.4%
Millennials 1981–963.7%
Generation Z 1997–122.8%
2013 and later4.4%

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.

Where Boyd is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Boyd has been most common in Utah (7.9×), Idaho (6.3×), and West Virginia (4.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.06×).

21,219 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Boyd

#2,152 Mikhail · 12,398#2,153 Braydon · 12,384#2,155 Yasmine · 12,356#2,156 Corrine · 12,349

Also a last name

As a last name, Boyd ranks #182 of 156,621, with 147,346 people. See Boyd as a last name

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