Male name

Boaz

371 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2025. Expression number: 8.

Origin

From Biblical Hebrew בֹּעַז (Bṓʿaz).

From Wiktionary, entry “Boaz”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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How many babies received it

From the official birth registers.

In England and Wales

440200020102020

Peak in 2025: 44 births. 371 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 2017. It is still given: 142 births from 2021 to 2025.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.

In the United States

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Peak in 2025: 268 births. 3,476 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 1992. It is still given: 1,165 births from 2021 to 2025.

Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.

The numbers of the name

Each letter has a value: A = 1, B = 2… I = 9, then J = 1 again (Pythagorean method). We add them up, then reduce to a single digit, except 11, 22 and 33.

B2O6A1Z8

■ vowel · ■ consonant

Expression

All the letters: talents, the way you act.

8

power, achievement, your relationship with money

2 + 6 + 1 + 8 = 17 → 8

Soul

The vowels: what drives you deep down.

7

reflection, inner life, seeking

6 + 1 = 7

Personality

The consonants: what others notice first.

1

initiative, independence, beginnings

2 + 8 = 10 → 1

Digits missing from the name
3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Most frequent digit
1 · initiative, independence, beginnings
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Your name and theirs

The number of each name, and the number of the bond, which comes from adding them together. A symbolic game: what your two names say together, to be read as a metaphor, not as a verdict on your relationship.