The name Bo developed from the Old Norse surname Búi, which originated from ‘bua’ meaning ‘to live’. It is found in Scandinavian countries.
Bo is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Bo isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Bo ranks 554. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Bo. In the entire USA, approximately 10,108 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bo. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.2% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
Being only two letters long, the name Bo is really special. Only 0.2% of all common first names in the US are written with just two letters. On the other hand, 99.8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than two letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that if 4.2% of all boys' names start with a B, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Brian is the boys’ name starting with B, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Bo and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bo, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bo
Bo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bo sounds like this:
