Boone

Where Boone comes from

Boone hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #974 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Boone Logan born
    American baseball player
  3. 1993
    Boone Jenner born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  4. 2025
    Peak, #423
    762 babies named Boone — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Boone Jenner · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1993
  • Boone Logan · American baseball player, born 1984

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.