Boaz

What Boaz means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Boaz yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,307 in 2015 to #891 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Boaz?

US: Rising: up from #1307 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1511 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 268 boys got the name (#891 that year). First in the US records in 1928.

How common

• About 1 in 6,373 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,180 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OR (0.66 per 1,000 boys), MO (0.65 per 1,000 boys), WI (0.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Boaz is #891 in the US and #763 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Boaz were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Baaz19 US · 5 E&W
• Baz13 US · 3 E&W
• Buzz7 US · 5 E&W
• Boss7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Boaz

Boys

• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Matthias#372From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Shmuel#920Variant of Samuel, meaning “God has set or God has placed”^*

For a sister

• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Rivka#628Same root as Rebecca, meaning “enchantingly beautiful, captivating…^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Boaz’s. Rank is US 2025.