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Boston
Pronounced /ˈbɔstən/
Rank in 2024
#627
Born in 2024
449
Peak year
2014 · #556
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 449 boys were named Boston, about 1 in every 3,820.
- It peaked in 2014 with 497 babies, ranked #556.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 10,448 boys have been named Boston since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Boston per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 223 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 145 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 72 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 29 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 394 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,220 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,338 babies, 0.25 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈbɔstən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Boston, CC BY-SA 4.0.