Babyboy
#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
- Peak · boys
- 1991 · 126 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,291since 1983
Babyboy over time
Rank among boys' names. Babyboy has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #3,104 | 39 |
| 2023 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #5,058 | 18 |
| 2014 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #5,923 | 14 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
| 2010 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #6,094 | 13 |
| 2005 | #1,813 | 71 |
| 2004 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #1,478 | 88 |
| 2002 | #1,200 | 116 |
| 2001 | #1,059 | 136 |
| 2000 | #1,382 | 91 |
| 1999 | #1,241 | 100 |
| 1998 | #977 | 141 |
| 1997 | #1,089 | 116 |
| 1996 | #1,454 | 70 |
| 1995 | #1,206 | 92 |
| 1994 | #1,434 | 67 |
| 1993 | #1,205 | 87 |
| 1992 | #1,274 | 79 |
| 1991 | #945 | 126 |
| 1990 | #1,135 | 90 |
| 1989 | #1,219 | 77 |
| 1988 | #1,404 | 55 |
| 1987 | #1,188 | 66 |
| 1986 | #1,725 | 36 |
| 1985 | #2,504 | 20 |
| 1984 | #3,459 | 12 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Babyboy! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Babyboy is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#266 · 1 in 2,713
- Massachusetts#463 · 1 in 8,294
- Ohio#737 · 1 in 15,383
- New York#1,140 · 1 in 21,615
- California#1,299 · 1 in 28,026
Best ever in a state: #80 in District of Columbia, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Connecticut | #266 | 8 | 1 in 2,713 |
| Massachusetts | #463 | 5 | 1 in 8,294 |
| Ohio | #737 | 5 | 1 in 15,383 |
| New York | #1,140 | 6 | 1 in 21,615 |
| California | #1,299 | 9 | 1 in 28,026 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Babyboy
- 2,757 spots since 2024 (#3,104 → #5,861)
- 2,725 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #5,861)
- 803 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #5,861)
- Biggest jump: 190 spots in 1991 (#1,135 → #945)
- Biggest drop: 329 spots in 1992 (#945 → #1,274)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 1991 at #945 (126 births)
- Births halved by 2006, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1991–1998
- Highest: 1 in 13,556 boys born in 1998 were named Babyboy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #945 in 1991, was only 1 in 16,034 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 42.3% of all boys named Babyboy (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 272 | #1,188 (1987) | #2,426 |
| 1990s | 968 | #945 (1991) | #1,196 |
| 2000s | 645 | #1,059 (2001) | #3,335 |
| 2010s | 212 | #3,249 (2017) | #4,852 |
| 2020s | 194 | #3,005 (2023) | #3,707 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Babyboy in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 34,805 of them was named Babyboy, which outranked 83.5% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,395Shlomo56
- #1,395Terron56
- #1,395Yitzchok56
- #1,404Babyboy55
- #1,404Bartholomew55
- #1,404Blain55
- #1,404Brodie55
- #1,427Aidan54
- #1,427Ammon54
- #1,427Boyd54
Tied with 22 names at #1,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.