US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE BOSTON

Same rise and fall as Boston, around the same years.

WHERE BOSTON IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Boston ranked highest in Utah (#269) and lowest in Florida (#2,793). 20 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Boston name popularity

Boston has been given to 11,944 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2014, when 562 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1,044 in 2012.

In 2025, 505 babies were named Boston (#1,159 in the country), 10% below the peak. That is up 3% from 2015.

About 9% of babies named Boston were girls and 91% were boys.

An estimated 11K people named Boston are alive in the US today, with a median age of 12.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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