Bo

girls:

818 births since 1929

#4898 (14th percentile)

boys:

13.6k births since 1907

#994 (78th percentile)

overall:

14.4k births since 1907

#2185 (72nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bo".

1907 2023 19072023

Key Statistics

Total Births
818
Peak Births
42
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1929
Peak Percentile
4.0%
Current Percentile
1.8%
Peak Rank
#592
Current Rank
#930
Female statistics
Total Births
13,587
Peak Births
630
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1907
Peak Percentile
52.6%
Current Percentile
52.6%
Peak Rank
#251
Current Rank
#432
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Bo

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bo. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.9% confident that Bo is pronounced as boh. The next most likely pronunciation is bue, at 9.1% confidence.

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90.9%
1
9.1%
boh (1 syllable)
Verified
90.9% confidence
B OW1
bue (1 syllable)
9.1% confidence
B UW1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Bo. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Bo, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BUE-ee (2 syllables)
2 names 3k births
B UW1 IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

bow (1 syllable)
2 names 1.6k births
B AW1

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like B OW1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.