Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Bo” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bo” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bo” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bo” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bo” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bo” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bo” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bo” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 6 0.00000257 6 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1925 9 0.000003857 9 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1932 6 0.000002842 6 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 -100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 -100%
1947 8 0.000002221 8 -100%
1948 10 0.000002896 10 -100%
1949 14 0.000004017 14 -100%
1950 9 0.000002569 9 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 -100%
1953 15 0.000003892 15 -100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 -100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 -100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 -100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 -100%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 -100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 -100%
1960 27 0.0000065 27 -100%
1961 29 0.000007001 29 -100%
1962 26 0.000006443 26 -100%
1963 32 0.000008084 32 -100%
1964 23 0.000005916 23 -100%
1965 18 0.000004965 18 -100%
1966 27 0.000007768 27 -100%
1967 22 0.00000648 22 -100%
1968 25 0.0000074 25 -100%
1969 29 0.000008345 29 -100%
1970 25 0.000006932 25 -100%
1971 36 0.000010488 36 -100%
1972 49 0.00001559 49 -100%
1973 55 0.000018231 5 50 -82%
1974 45 0.000014803 45 -100%
1975 51 0.000016891 51 -100%
1976 59 0.000019444 59 -100%
1977 77 0.000024241 77 -100%
1978 73 0.000023 73 -100%
1979 106 0.000031861 5 101 -91%
1980 263 0.000076353 31 232 -76%
1981 263 0.000076025 26 237 -80%
1982 177 0.000050457 17 160 -81%
1983 153 0.000044177 15 138 -80%
1984 219 0.000062773 18 201 -84%
1985 170 0.000047631 17 153 -80%
1986 187 0.000052571 13 174 -86%
1987 202 0.000056024 16 186 -84%
1988 187 0.000050608 15 172 -84%
1989 231 0.000060087 16 215 -86%
1990 293 0.000074131 16 277 -89%
1991 295 0.000075733 13 282 -91%
1992 291 0.000075756 15 276 -90%
1993 244 0.000064717 15 229 -88%
1994 209 0.000056218 16 193 -85%
1995 183 0.000049971 10 173 -89%
1996 200 0.000054837 9 191 -91%
1997 158 0.000043577 5 153 -94%
1998 185 0.000050296 9 176 -90%
1999 194 0.000052519 9 185 -91%
2000 157 0.000041535 5 152 -94%
2001 169 0.000045146 9 160 -89%
2002 173 0.000046278 14 159 -84%
2003 203 0.000053388 20 183 -80%
2004 215 0.000056269 11 204 -90%
2005 279 0.000072565 20 259 -86%
2006 297 0.000075072 29 268 -80%
2007 307 0.000076794 21 286 -86%
2008 282 0.000071744 21 261 -85%
2009 305 0.000079839 16 289 -90%
2010 274 0.000074139 18 256 -87%
2011 311 0.000085024 18 293 -88%
2012 309 0.000084487 19 290 -88%
2013 344 0.000094359 26 318 -85%
2014 427 0.000115207 14 413 -93%
2015 451 0.000121862 17 434 -92%
2016 480 0.000130837 27 453 -89%
2017 453 0.000126671 21 432 -91%
2018 515 0.000146478 32 483 -88%
2019 524 0.000150968 31 493 -88%
2020 545 0.000163145 20 525 -93%
2021 663 0.000195694 42 621 -87%
2022 643 0.00019006 29 614 -91%
2023 654 0.000197512 22 632 -93%
2024 708 0.000212708 16 692 -95%

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