Boe is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Boe is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Boe. In the SmartGenius ranking, Boe is #2,920 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Boe.
In fact, the name Boe hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Boe wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1982, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,780, 27 parents chose it in 1982 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Boe, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Boe was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Boe a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,694, for a total of 40 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Boe seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Boe is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 26 Americans in total bear this name. And these 26 men are located in only three states: Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Boe and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Boe in relation to it’s male population is Minnesota. And yet even there, only one in 304,974 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Boe present.
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.
With only three letters, the name Boe is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Boe 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 Boe, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Orange
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Boe
Boe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
O
E
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
E
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. Boe sounds like this:
