Boys
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boys is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, and Middx. see Boyce . 2 English: see Boyes .
- AUAustralia≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 115K
- USUnited States1 in 472K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
704 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, and Middx. see Boyce . 2 English: see Boyes .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boys counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 704 | 1 in 472K | 808 | Boys | 202 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Boys | 126 |
| AU Australia | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Boys | 99 |
| IN India | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | 171 | Boys | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 221K | — | Boys | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Boys | 54 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Boys | 37 |
704 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anton Boysb. 1530BEFlemish painter
- William Boysb. 1735GBSurgeon and topographer
- Thomas Shotter Boysb. 1803GBBritish artist (1803-1874)
- Charles Vernon Boysb. 1855GBBritish physicist (1855-1944)
- Reginald Hardie Boysb. 1903NZNew Zealand judge (1903-1970)
- Michael Hardie Boysb. 1931NZ17th Governor-General of New Zealand (1931–2023)
- Beverly Boysb. 1951CACanadian diver
- Daniel Boysb. 1979GBBritish actor and singer
- Lizzie Boysb. 2000CACanadian actress
- Jos BoysGBArchitect, journalist and design activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 808 | #30,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 733 | #30,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 704 | #32,632 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 171 | #252 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #14,612 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #101,667 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Boys mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Kent, Sussex, and Middx. see Boyce . 2 English: see Boyes . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Boys have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 704 people named Boys, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boys.
- How common is the name Boys?
- In the United States, the national register counted 704 people named Boys in 2010, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boysThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boys”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.