Bo: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced BOH · 1 syllable

Either borrowed from modern Danish Bo or Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name Beau.

How popular is Bo?

Bo was the #449 name in the US in 2025, given to 728 babies. It’s rising: up 84% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Babies named Bo in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2020).

Half of US adults named Bo are older than 34; most are between 19 and 57. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Bo have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Bo is pronounced BOH.

Bo was the #449 name in the US in 2025, given to 728 babies. It’s rising: up 84% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2020.

Half of US adults named Bo are older than 34. Most are between 19 and 57.