Baby name
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🇺🇸 Boston
/BOS · tuhn/
Meaning
“Saint Botolph's town”
An English place name. The town of Boston in Lincolnshire, England is traditionally explained as a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town," named for the 7th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot Botolph. The American city of Boston, Massachusetts takes its name from the English town, and the given name echoes that American civic identity.
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How it ages.
A modern American place-name pick, more at home as a middle name or a stylistic choice than as a traditional family name.
The cultural moment.
In the United States, Boston ranked #605 among boys' names in 2015 and #620 in 2025, after peaking at #555 in 2014; use has held fairly steady over the past decade rather than sharply rising or fading.