Bowman
#2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
- Peak · boys
- 1884 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,022since 1884
Bowman over time
Rank among boys' names. Bowman 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #2,502 | 54 |
| 2023 | #3,005 | 41 |
| 2022 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #2,695 | 47 |
| 2020 | #2,658 | 47 |
| 2019 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #2,994 | 39 |
| 2017 | #3,006 | 39 |
| 2016 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
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| 1976 | — | |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
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| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 6 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,827 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,364 | 6 |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,690 | 8 |
| 1945 | #2,743 | 7 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,964 | 7 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,871 | 7 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,679 | 5 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
| 1931 | #3,763 | 5 |
| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #3,247 | 7 |
| 1928 | #3,357 | 7 |
| 1927 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | #3,260 | 8 |
| 1923 | #2,950 | 9 |
| 1922 | #2,347 | 13 |
| 1921 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #4,179 | 5 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #2,621 | 9 |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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| 1884 | #971 | 5 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Bowman! It came in at #971, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1884–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Bowman is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#548 · 1 in 2,894
Best ever in a state: #548 in South Carolina, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #548 | 7 | 1 in 2,894 |
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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 Bowman
- 112 spots since 2024 (#2,502 → #2,390)
- 268 spots since 2020 (#2,658 → #2,390)
- 474 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #2,390)
- Debuted 1884
- Peaked 1884 at #971 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1884
- Highest: 1 in 22,888 boys born in 1884 were named Bowman (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.4% of all boys named Bowman (300) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #971 (1884) | #971 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 31 | #2,621 (1915) | #3,470 |
| 1920s | 72 | #2,347 (1922) | #3,515 |
| 1930s | 29 | #3,092 (1932) | #3,468 |
| 1940s | 29 | #2,690 (1946) | #2,817 |
| 1950s | 39 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,690 |
| 1960s | 11 | #3,646 (1963) | #3,840 |
| 1970s | 6 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,230 |
| 1980s | 37 | #4,215 (1984) | #5,265 |
| 1990s | 61 | #5,159 (1998) | #7,449 |
| 2000s | 108 | #5,781 (2006) | #6,911 |
| 2010s | 300 | #2,783 (2016) | #3,869 |
| 2020s | 294 | #2,390 (2025) | #2,661 |
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.
Bowman in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 37,223 of them was named Bowman, which outranked 80.9% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,652Zaccai48
- #2,652Zaden48
- #2,652Zian48
- #2,695Bowman47
- #2,695Alain47
- #2,695Binyamin47
- #2,695Brayton47
- #2,732Aleister46
- #2,732Baruch46
- #2,732Blue46
Tied with 36 names at #2,695; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.