Bo

Where Bo comes from

Either borrowed from modern Danish Bo or Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name Beau.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bo
  • Germanic
  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Bo through the years
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,345 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1930
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name. From this year on, more boys have.
  3. 2025
    Peak, #449
    698 babies named Bo, the most in any year.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name of occasional usage since the 1970s.
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages
  • A male given name from French, variant of Beau
  • A diminutive of the male given name Beauregard
  • A diminutive of the male given name Beaumont
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Bo in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.