Boone is from the Old French bon (good) — historically a surname now used as a modern unisex given name. Boone Carlyle — male character on ABC's Lost (2004-2010), played by Ian Somerhalder; one of the central characters of the first season; the show won 6 Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series (2005) — the first non-network drama to win in the category; Lost changed serialized television and was streamed 11+ billion minutes during its 2024 Netflix revival.
Boone does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Boone reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.