Boone
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #15,251 · #423 for boys in 2025, 762 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 762 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,887since 1889
Boone over time
Rank among boys' names. Boone has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | — | #423 | 762 | |
| 2024 | — | #534 | 558 | |
| 2023 | — | #596 | 475 | |
| 2022 | — | #602 | 468 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #573 | 488 |
| 2020 | — | #581 | 478 | |
| 2019 | — | #657 | 402 | |
| 2018 | — | #666 | 379 | |
| 2017 | — | #718 | 337 | |
| 2016 | — | #794 | 298 | |
| 2015 | — | #944 | 222 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,035 | 195 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,144 | 158 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,328 | 128 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,635 | 93 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,725 | 88 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,742 | 88 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,001 | 70 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,185 | 61 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,398 | 51 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,237 | 53 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,158 | 31 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,674 | 37 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,632 | 36 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,618 | 36 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,736 | 33 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,552 | 33 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,823 | 27 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,332 | 34 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,626 | 28 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,082 | 39 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,865 | 24 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,085 | 37 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,989 | 21 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,865 | 22 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,205 | 18 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,272 | 25 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,096 | 27 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,724 | 35 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,630 | 36 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,230 | 13 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,779 | 16 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,729 | 17 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,568 | 18 | |
| 1978 | — | #4,157 | 8 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,508 | 17 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,013 | 11 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #3,963 | 7 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | #4,033 | 5 | |
| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #2,580 | 9 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,871 | 7 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,449 | 9 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,741 | 6 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,260 | 8 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,950 | 9 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,986 | 9 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,131 | 15 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,385 | 12 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,398 | 12 | |
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | #2,092 | 8 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | #974 | 5 | |
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Boone! It came in at #974, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1889–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Boone
- 111 spots since 2024 (#534 → #423)
- 158 spots since 2020 (#581 → #423)
- 521 spots since 2015 (#944 → #423)
- Biggest jump: 150 spots in 2016 (#944 → #794)
- Biggest drop: 29 spots in 2022 (#573 → #602)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 2025 at #423 (762 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,242 boys born in 2025 were named Boone (0.04%)
- 46.9% of all boys named Boone (3,229) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #974 (1889) | #974 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,130 (1903) | #1,130 |
| 1910s | 55 | #1,746 (1912) | #2,490 |
| 1920s | 89 | #2,131 (1920) | #3,100 |
| 1930s | 41 | #2,449 (1939) | #3,113 |
| 1940s | 13 | #2,871 (1940) | #3,002 |
| 1950s | 14 | #2,580 (1950) | #3,204 |
| 1960s | 23 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,842 |
| 1970s | 102 | #2,508 (1976) | #3,317 |
| 1980s | 225 | #1,630 (1984) | #2,531 |
| 1990s | 290 | #2,082 (1994) | #2,640 |
| 2000s | 496 | #1,742 (2009) | #2,438 |
| 2010s | 2,300 | #657 (2019) | #1,065 |
| 2020s | 3,229 | #423 (2025) | #552 |
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.
Boone in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Boone, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 3,585 of them was named Boone, which outranked 95.9% 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).