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)
The name Bo is the #2,185 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,405 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 71.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #994 (78.3% percentile) for all time with 13,587 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #4,898 (14.3% percentile) for all time with 818 births since 1929.
Bo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Bo is available in 95 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (94 years for boys and 47 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bo reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 52.6% percentile (ranked #432) with 344 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 344 births per million (ranked 52.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bo is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #432 (52.6% percentile) with 344 births per million.
For girls, Bo reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #899) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bo ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 53.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Bo is pronounced as boh, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bue, at 9.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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.
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