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How popular is the name Boris?

Births per year, rank history and how many Borises are alive today.

Boris (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1406th in 2025 and given to 19 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2018, when 47 babies were given the name, the 721st most popular that year. It has declined since 2018; the 2025 figure is roughly 40% of its peak. Boris is one spelling of a name also recorded as Borys; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Boris you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Borises born in England and Wales are between 8 and 16, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Boris - on average, only one in every 276 such rooms contains a Boris.

How many babies are named Boris each year?

Includes all spellings: Boris, Borys. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Boris spelling rank?

Where does the Borys spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.