Babyboy

#5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births

Peak · boys
1991 · 126 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,291
since 1983

Babyboy over time

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Rank among boys' names. Babyboy has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201988peak #945, 1991boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#5,86115
2024#3,10439
2023#3,00541
2022#3,77429
2021#3,36234
2020#3,13636
2019#4,00326
2018#3,30134
2017#3,24935
2016#4,94319
2015#5,05818
2014#4,39222
2013#5,92314
2012#5,03518
2011#6,57812
2010#6,03614
2009#5,55416
2008#5,06718
2007#8,1739
2006#6,09413
2005#1,81371
2004#1,53087
2003#1,47888
2002#1,200116
2001#1,059136
2000#1,38291
1999#1,241100
1998#977141
1997#1,089116
1996#1,45470
1995#1,20692
1994#1,43467
1993#1,20587
1992#1,27479
1991#945126
1990#1,13590
1989#1,21977
1988#1,40455
1987#1,18866
1986#1,72536
1985#2,50420
1984#3,45912
1983#5,4846
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First appearance
1983

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.

See more about Babyboy
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
8 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 1991 at #945 (126 births)
  • Births halved by 2006, 15 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1991–1998
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,556
  • 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
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 42.3% of all boys named Babyboy (968) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s272#1,188 (1987)#2,426
1990s968#945 (1991)#1,196
2000s645#1,059 (2001)#3,335
2010s212#3,249 (2017)#4,852
2020s194#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

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#1,404
55 births · 1 in 34,805 boys

Top boys' names in 1988

  1. #1Michael64,171
  2. #2Christopher53,014
  3. #3Matthew45,876
  4. #4Joshua42,653
  5. #5Andrew35,745
  6. #6David35,329
  7. #7Justin35,055
  8. #8Daniel34,718
  9. #9James32,523
  10. #10Robert30,319
  11. #1,404Babyboy55
More about 1988

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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).

Ranked beside Babyboy
  1. #1,395Shlomo56
  2. #1,395Terron56
  3. #1,395Yitzchok56
  4. #1,404Babyboy55
  5. #1,404Bartholomew55
  6. #1,404Blain55
  7. #1,404Brodie55
  8. #1,427Aidan54
  9. #1,427Ammon54
  10. #1,427Boyd54

Tied with 22 names at #1,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1987
Risers
  1. 3,252Nico#4,239#987
  2. 1,245Ridge#2,215#970
  3. 668Colten#1,484#816
  4. 600Brantley#1,587#987
  5. 518Long#1,337#819
Fallers
  1. 362Cordaro#908#1,270
  2. 246Ramsey#884#1,130
  3. 241Yaakov#974#1,215
  4. 233Adrain#990#1,223
  5. 230Kiel#846#1,076

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1988