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
Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,345 among boys, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2025
    Peak, #449
    698 babies named Bo — more than any year before or since.
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 known Bo turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.