Boruch
Masculine · “blessed”
Boruch is how Ashkenazi Hebrew says Baruch — blessed — and it is one of the most-used names in Hasidic communities today. The word opens nearly every Jewish blessing ever said.
How old is the name Boruch?
Boruch first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Boruch alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,100 people named Boruch are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Boruch most popular?
Boruch peaked in 1983, reaching #2577 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 663 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
Where it comes from
From baruch to Boruch
The story of Boruch
Baruch ben Neriah served as Jeremiah's secretary and is named repeatedly in the book, and the name stayed in Jewish use continuously afterwards. Ashkenazi Hebrew shifts the long vowel that Sephardi and modern Israeli Hebrew keep as an a, so the same name is Baruch in Israel and Boruch in Brooklyn and Antwerp. It is very widely used in Hasidic families, often in combination with a second name.
Meaning
blessed
From Hebrew baruch, blessed, the first word of the standard formula of Jewish blessing; the biblical Baruch is the scribe who wrote down the prophecies of Jeremiah.
How the name formed
- baruch
- Boruch
Related forms: Baruch · Borech · Mubarak
Pronouncing Boruch
BOH-rukh
Two syllables, first stressed, with a throaty final consonant that English does not have.
Nicknames for Boruch
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1955
- Most boys named
- 201342 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2577reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- +9.1%36 in 2025, from 33
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Boruch in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Baruch in Hebrew — same name
- Borech in Yiddish — spelling variant
- Mubarak in Arabic — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New Jersey, New York.
Boruchs among us
people named Boruch are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Boruch
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kaven test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Boruch's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kaven climbed just as high around 1968, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kaven's path sketches the road Boruch is walking now.
Boruch sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Boruch is headed
Boruch should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Boruch beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Boruch in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning of unusual directness, tied to a formula said many times a day.
- Documented from the biblical text to the present with no break in use.
- It is entirely distinct from any other name in an American classroom.
- The final consonant does not exist in English and will be flattened to a k everywhere.
- Baruch is the Israeli and standard-English spelling and will be written for him.
- It is very strongly marked as a community name, which is the intention in most families that choose it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Boruchs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Boruch are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Boruch in 2025?
- Boruch ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Boruch?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Boruch — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Boruch with classmates?
- Boruch will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Boruch
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