girls:
5 births since 2021
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.6k births since 1889
#1590 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.6k births since 1889
#3643 (53rd percentile)
The name Boone is the #3,643 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,567 recorded births since 1889. This represents the 52.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,590 (65.3% percentile) for all time with 5,562 births since 1889. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Boone first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1889 (1889 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Boone is available in 85 out of the 135 years between 1889 and 2023 (85 years for boys and 1 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 Boone has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Boone reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 45.5% percentile (ranked #507) with 260 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 260 births per million (ranked 45.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Boone is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #509 (44.2% percentile) with 259 births per million.
For girls, Boone reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Boone".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Boone is pronounced as buen, which has 1 syllables.
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