Bo

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bo: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #129, and it stood at #129 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
135times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#129highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
2000	#3247
2001	#1170
2002	#998
2003	#666
2004	#758
2005	#680
2006	#665
2007	#987
2008	#779
2009	#771
2010	#878
2011	#989
2012	#654
2013	#925
2014	#1120
2015	#2070
2016	#1057
2017	#1995
2018	#1788
2019	#1940
2020	#1846
2021	#2341
2022	#2488
2023	#2689

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 76 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2018: #896 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1788 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #294 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #129 among boys in Norway, in 2024 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #129 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Bo appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 76 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,151 births with the name.

Bo across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#294 (1945)	#129 (2024)	#129 (2025)	76 of 81	1,151 (1945–2025)	45 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#1117 (2021)	#2263 (2024)	24 of 28	263 (1997–2024)	25 (2021)
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#654 (2012)	#2689 (2023)	25 of 27	682 (1997–2023)	63 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#629 (2007)	#548 (2012)	#660 (2023)	6 of 17	22 (2007–2023)	5 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#661 (2014)	#896 (2018)	4 of 15	14 (2004–2018)	5 (2014)

Bo by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bo in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	40	4 of 10	10
1950s	106	8 of 10	13
1960s	143	10 of 10	14
1970s	133	10 of 10	13
1980s	113	10 of 10	11
1990s	60	9 of 10	7
2000s	130	9 of 10	14
2010s	215	10 of 10	22
2020sbusiest	211	6 of 10	35

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Bo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #129 in Norway in 2025.

Bo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2689	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1117	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1788	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1120	31	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#925	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#654	63	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#989	35	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1600	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#878	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#771	46	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1981	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#779	44	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#665	47	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#680	45	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#758	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#666	43	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#998	22	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#129	45	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#129	42	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#156	34	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#176	29	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#150	34	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#164	27	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#194	26	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#197	27	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#199	26	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#297	15	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#228	23	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#229	22	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#268	18	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#251	19	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#270	17	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#221	22	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#248	20	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#317	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#222	22	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#242	19	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#244	18	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#329	10	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#288	13	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#489	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#356	10	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#375	9	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#500	5	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#405	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#563	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#523	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#585	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#487	6	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#517	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#344	13	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#491	7	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#391	11	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#425	9	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#259	21	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#310	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#488	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#406	10	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#385	11	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#394	10	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#356	12	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#350	12	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#388	10	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#444	8	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#325	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#292	15	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#331	13	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#281	16	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#259	19	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#355	11	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#274	16	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#294	14	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#295	13	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#214	23	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#276	14	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#250	17	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#257	15	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#301	11	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#251	14	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#303	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#279	12	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#212	17	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#218	16	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#229	15	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#275	10	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#218	15	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#258	10	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#237	12	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#251	11	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#248	11	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#243	12	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#263	10	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#294	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#657	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 77 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #129, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 63 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bluebelle · #1313, 20y
Blythe · #638, 29y
Boaz · #1078, 25y
Bob · #529, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ester · #134, 77y
Edgar · #122, 76y
Irina · #136, 74y
Petra · #120, 80y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Ådne · #128, 67y
Kolbjørn · #128, 49y
Rasmus · #130, 78y
Sveinung · #128, 66y

Bo was ranked #129 in Norway · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bo without appearing here.

Bo moved ahead of

George Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3824 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #998 and #4137.
Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3315 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1560 and #4632.
Madison Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3315 and #3315 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1560 and #4632.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2070 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1057 and #4096.

Moved ahead of Bo

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1286.
Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2689 and #1959.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1846 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2341 and #1785.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1846 and #1313.

Moved the opposite way to Bo

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Bo

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Bo went from #294 to #129 and Daniel from #280 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #129 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bo

Bo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bo across 5 official records

Bo by decade in Norway · Boys

Bo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Bo and the names beside it

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Bo at a glance

Bo across 5 official records

Bo by decade in Norway · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Bo

Bo and the names beside it

Bo moved ahead of

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