Boston

Where Boston comes from

The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
— Wiktionary's entry for Boston
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1832
    Boston Corbett born
    Union Army sergeant
  2. 1848
    Boston Custer born
    Brother of George Armstrong Custer
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 2012
    Peak, #536
    487 babies named Boston — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
Namesakes
  • Boston Corbett · Union Army sergeant, 1832–1894
  • Boston Custer · Brother of George Armstrong Custer, 1848–1876
  • Boston Scott · American football running back, born 1995
  • Boston Simbeye · Malawian boxer (* 1959), born 1959
  • Boston Mwanza · association football player, born 1977

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.