About the name Boston
Boston belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Boston first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #536 in 2012, and in 2024 449 babies received the name — 10,448 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.