girls:
125 births since 1912
#5591 (2nd percentile)
boys:
28 births since 1912
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
153 births since 1912
#7586 (2nd percentile)
The name Boots is the #7,586 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 153 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,591 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 125 births since 1912. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1912.
Boots first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 . Birth data for Boots is available in 17 out of the 23 years between 1912 and 1934 (15 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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 Boots has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.7% of all recorded births being female. In 1934, 100.0% of babies named Boots were girls. Interestingly, until around 1917, the name was more popular for boys (54.2% boys from 1912 to 1916), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.4% girls from 1917 to 1934).
For girls, Boots reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #601) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
For boys, Boots reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #541) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Boots".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Boots.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Boots", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Boots.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Boots. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Boots is pronounced as buets, which has 1 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Boots? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Boots. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Boots, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 UW1 T S) 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker