Boss
#9,714 for boys in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 451since 1881
Boss over time
Rank among boys' names. Boss has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #6,001 | 14 |
| 2011 | #5,945 | 14 |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
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| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
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| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #2,473 | 12 |
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| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #2,632 | 11 |
| 1920 | #3,489 | 7 |
| 1919 | #3,391 | 7 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
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| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
| 1912 | #2,269 | 6 |
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| 1910 | #1,589 | 5 |
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| 1907 | #1,094 | 7 |
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| 1903 | #783 | 9 |
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| 1900 | #1,162 | 6 |
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| 1898 | #885 | 7 |
| 1897 | #942 | 6 |
| 1896 | #1,101 | 5 |
| 1895 | #1,079 | 5 |
| 1894 | #567 | 13 |
| 1893 | #650 | 10 |
| 1892 | #748 | 9 |
| 1891 | #635 | 9 |
| 1890 | #739 | 8 |
| 1889 | #878 | 6 |
| 1888 | #917 | 6 |
| 1887 | #679 | 8 |
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| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | #720 | 7 |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | #706 | 7 |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Boss! It came in at #706, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Boss
- 727 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #9,714)
- 4,015 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #9,714)
- 1,674 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #9,714)
- Biggest jump: 159 spots in 1897 (#1,101 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 512 spots in 1895 (#567 → #1,079)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1894 at #567 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1887–1894
- Highest: 1 in 8,905 boys born in 1894 were named Boss (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 244,011 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.3% of all boys named Boss (123) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 40 | #679 (1887) | #791 |
| 1890s | 72 | #567 (1894) | #816 |
| 1900s | 22 | #783 (1903) | #1,013 |
| 1910s | 50 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,920 |
| 1920s | 40 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,372 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,361 (1932) | #3,361 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 28 | #7,692 (2009) | #10,283 |
| 2010s | 123 | #5,540 (2018) | #6,727 |
| 2020s | 65 | #5,699 (2020) | #7,550 |
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.
Boss in 1895
Top boys' names in 1895
More about 1895
boys
117,393 boys got a published name in 1895; 1 in 23,479 of them was named Boss, which outranked 13.1% of the 1,241 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 162 names at #1,079; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.