Bo
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · #449 for boys in 2025, 698 births
Given to boys 94.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 698 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,984since 1907
Bo over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | #449 | 698 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #452 | 692 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #478 | 633 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #497 | 614 |
| 2021 | #3,614 | 42 | #480 | 622 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #540 | 525 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #566 | 493 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | #572 | 483 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #610 | 432 |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | #595 | 453 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 | #618 | 434 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #633 | 414 |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | #733 | 318 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #782 | 290 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 | #764 | 293 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #834 | 256 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #784 | 289 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | #834 | 262 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #767 | 286 |
| 2006 | #4,811 | 29 | #775 | 268 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 | #764 | 259 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #862 | 204 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #909 | 183 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 | #988 | 159 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #958 | 160 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #977 | 152 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #826 | 185 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #833 | 176 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #900 | 153 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #769 | 191 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #813 | 173 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #757 | 193 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #677 | 229 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #621 | 276 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #605 | 282 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #602 | 277 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #680 | 215 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #713 | 172 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #671 | 186 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | #684 | 174 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | #715 | 153 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 | #599 | 201 |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | #735 | 138 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | #683 | 160 |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | #550 | 237 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | #568 | 232 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #864 | 101 |
| 1978 | — | #1,011 | 73 | |
| 1977 | — | #975 | 77 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,100 | 59 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,181 | 51 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,244 | 45 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #1,163 | 50 |
| 1972 | — | #1,163 | 49 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,415 | 36 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,743 | 25 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,492 | 29 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,574 | 25 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,484 | 27 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,856 | 18 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,655 | 23 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,375 | 32 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,546 | 26 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,496 | 29 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,552 | 27 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,620 | 24 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,724 | 21 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,375 | 12 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,558 | 10 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,114 | 14 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,038 | 15 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,153 | 13 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,495 | 10 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,022 | 14 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
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| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
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| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,208 | 8 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
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| 1907 | — | #1,345 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bo! It came in at #1,345, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1907–1915, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bo
- 3 spots since 2024 (#452 → #449)
- 91 spots since 2020 (#540 → #449)
- 169 spots since 2015 (#618 → #449)
- Biggest jump: 296 spots in 1980 (#864 → #568)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 2000 (#826 → #977)
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 2025 at #449 (698 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 48 yrs · run 1979–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,447 boys born in 2025 were named Bo (0.04%)
- 25.8% of all boys named Bo (3,866) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1929, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,345 (1907) | #1,345 |
| 1910s | 23 | #2,543 (1916) | #3,216 |
| 1920s | 42 | #2,912 (1927) | #3,579 |
| 1930s | 24 | #3,022 (1930) | #3,394 |
| 1940s | 51 | #2,022 (1949) | #2,736 |
| 1950s | 140 | #1,620 (1959) | #2,202 |
| 1960s | 258 | #1,375 (1963) | #1,568 |
| 1970s | 566 | #864 (1979) | #1,186 |
| 1980s | 1,868 | #550 (1981) | #660 |
| 1990s | 2,135 | #602 (1990) | #740 |
| 2000s | 2,222 | #764 (2005) | #862 |
| 2010s | 3,866 | #566 (2019) | #671 |
| 2020s | 3,784 | #449 (2025) | #483 |
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.
Bo in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 128,349 of them was named Bo, which outranked 58.8% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,045Zionna15
- #7,045Zuleika15
- #7,045Zykira15
- #7,444Bo14
- #7,444Aalia14
- #7,444Abena14
- #7,444Adelita14
- #7,816Abbiegail13
- #7,816Abbye13
- #7,816Abygayle13
Tied with 371 names at #7,444; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,211 of them was named Bo, which outranked 92.1% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).