Boone

What Boone means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #944 in 2015, #423 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Boone?

US: Rising: up from #944 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 762 boys got the name (#423 that year). First in the US records in 1889.

How common

• About 1 in 2,242 baby boys in the US 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 MT (3.19 per 1,000 boys), SD (2.86 per 1,000 boys), ID (1.85 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Boone is #423 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 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 Boone were boys.

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

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the US pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Bane30 US
• Bayne13 US
• Baine7 US
• Boen7 US
• Bon5 US
• Boon5 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.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Boon

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Boone

Boys

• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Maverick#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #184 in 2015, #49 in 2025

For a sister

• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Boone’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.