Boe

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Boe: Recorded every year since 2003, it reached #1,210 in 2012, and it stood at #2,443 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#1210highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2003–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2003	#4373
2004	#2530
2005	#1934
2006	#1585
2007	#2627
2008	#2721
2009	#2148
2010	#2843
2011	#2025
2012	#1210
2013	#1360
2014	#1628
2015	#2070
2016	#4096
2017	#1681
2018	#1977
2019	#2286
2020	#1939
2021	#2341
2022	#2488
2023	#3218
2024	#3695

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 2003 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2003–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2003
First recorded at #4373 among girls in England and Wales in 2003 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2003–2024
Highest recorded position: #1210 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 2003–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3695 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Boe appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 22 years beginning in 2003, and has registered 262 births with the name.

Boe across 2 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.

Boe'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
England and Wales · Girls	#4373 (2003)	#1210 (2012)	#3695 (2024)	22 of 22	262 (2003–2024)	27 (2012)
England and Wales · Boys	#2870 (2006)	#1447 (2011)	#2443 (2024)	17 of 19	168 (2006–2024)	16 (2011)

Boe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Boe in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	63	7 of 10	9
2010sbusiest	151	10 of 10	15
2020s	48	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 15 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Boe appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2003 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1210 in England and Wales in 2012.

Boe'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	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2443	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1723	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1681	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2052	11	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1804	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2319	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1819	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2025	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1447	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2003 and 2024, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,210, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 27 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.

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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Elloise · #1211, 26y
Alea · #1206, 22y
Arayah · #1206, 17y
Kayra · #1206, 23y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Alea · #1206, 22y
Arayah · #1206, 17y
Kayra · #1206, 23y
Hooria · #1204, 20y

Boe 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 Boe without appearing here.

Boe moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1939 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Carol Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4096 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1681 and #4763.
Josefine Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4096 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1681 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Boe

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #1224.
Rune Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #2125 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2529 and #1609.
Malin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #2346.

Moved the opposite way to Boe

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #2530 to #3695 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Carol Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #4373 to #2341 while Carol went from #1722 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 2003 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #4373 to #2341 while Tyler went from #289 to #5581.
Blake Compare
Between 2007 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #2627 to #3695 while Blake went from #5201 to #432.

Moved the same way as Boe

Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #1934 to #3695 and Hayden from #3970 to #5891.
Evan Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #1585 to #3695 and Evan from #3548 to #5891.
Teddy Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Boe went from #1360 to #3695 and Teddy from #2460 to #5891.

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2003 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1210 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Boe

Boe at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Boe across 2 official records

Boe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Boe appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Boe and the names beside it

Boe moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Boe

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Boe at a glance

Boe across 2 official records

Boe by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Boe appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Boe and the names beside it

Boe moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Boe

Moved the opposite way to Boe

Moved the same way as Boe