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Pronounced BOOTS /ˈbuːts/Medium
Meaning: Boots is a pet-name drawn from the everyday English word boots, the footwear. In the early twentieth century warm, playful pet-names like this were sometimes recorded as legal first names. It has no ancient etymology of its own; its charm is the homey, affectionate ring of the plain word.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Boots is a word chosen as an affectionate name, from the plain English boots. Playful pet-names of this kind had a real vogue in the early twentieth century, when a fond nickname might become a child's registered name. Boots carries no deeper lineage; its warmth comes entirely from the cozy, everyday word.
Boots was always a rarity, given to only about fourteen girls a year at its peak in the nineteen-twenties and to barely more than a hundred before it disappeared. A girl named Boots then would be a great-grandmother today, and the name reads now as a charming period piece rather than a reviving choice.
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What does the name Boots mean?
It is an affectionate pet-name from the English word boots, given fondly as a first name in the early twentieth century.
How do you pronounce Boots?
It is said BOOTS /ˈbuːts/ - just one syllable.
Is Boots a boy or girl name?
Boots is used here as a girl's name.
How popular is Boots?
It was always rare and peaked in the nineteen-twenties before fading, one of many homey pet-names of that era.