Boy
#5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
- Peak · boys
- 1903 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 923since 1900
Boy over time
Rank among boys' names. Boy has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #3,986 | 27 |
| 2023 | #4,112 | 26 |
| 2022 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #3,582 | 31 |
| 2020 | #4,020 | 25 |
| 2019 | #2,897 | 42 |
| 2018 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #3,421 | 32 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #4,919 | 15 |
| 2001 | #2,489 | 39 |
| 2000 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #2,462 | 36 |
| 1998 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #3,202 | 22 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
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| 1978 | #4,554 | 7 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,776 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #3,467 | 7 |
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| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
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| 1908 | #1,373 | 5 |
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| 1903 | #1,130 | 5 |
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| 1900 | #1,310 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Boy! It came in at #1,310, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1900–1922, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Boy is popular in 1903
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Boy
- 1,222 spots since 2024 (#3,986 → #5,208)
- 1,188 spots since 2020 (#4,020 → #5,208)
- 1,326 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #5,208)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1903 at #1,130 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1904, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,846 boys born in 1903 were named Boy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,893 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.6% of all boys named Boy (264) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 15 | #1,130 (1903) | #1,271 |
| 1910s | 10 | #3,825 (1915) | #3,861 |
| 1920s | 7 | #3,467 (1923) | #3,467 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,776 (1932) | #3,776 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,798 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 7 | #4,554 (1978) | #4,554 |
| 1980s | 48 | #3,805 (1985) | #4,539 |
| 1990s | 217 | #2,295 (1993) | #3,442 |
| 2000s | 192 | #2,489 (2001) | #4,898 |
| 2010s | 264 | #2,897 (2019) | #4,125 |
| 2020s | 153 | #3,582 (2021) | #4,166 |
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.
Boy in 1903
Top boys' names in 1903
More about 1903
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119,230 boys got a published name in 1903; 1 in 23,846 of them was named Boy, which outranked 13.5% of the 1,306 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 176 names at #1,130; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.