# Boone (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/boone/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,892 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,887 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | 15,656 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 93 | 1,636 |
| 2012 | 128 | 1,329 |
| 2013 | 158 | 1,145 |
| 2014 | 195 | 1,035 |
| 2015 | 222 | 944 |
| 2016 | 298 | 794 |
| 2017 | 337 | 718 |
| 2018 | 379 | 666 |
| 2019 | 402 | 657 |
| 2020 | 478 | 581 |
| 2021 | 488 | 573 |
| 2022 | 468 | 602 |
| 2023 | 475 | 596 |
| 2024 | 558 | 534 |
| 2025 | 762 | 423 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Boone

- T. Boone Pickens, American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management (1928-2019)
- Boone Jenner, Canadian ice hockey player
- Boone Logan, American baseball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.