Boxing Names

Ring legends

These names are shared with boxing champions — the ring legends and title-holders of the sweet science. Few sports create icons as enduring as boxing's greatest names.

James J. Braddock

World heavyweight boxing champion known as the Cinderella Man

Boy

Jack Dempsey

World heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Juan Manuel Márquez

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Savannah Marshall

British professional world champion boxer

Girl

Genesis Servania

Professional Filipino boxer

Girl

Max Baer

World Heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Hector Camacho

World champion professional boxer known as Macho Camacho

Boy

Amir Khan

British professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Roberto Duran

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Donovan Ruddock

Heavyweight professional boxer

Boy

Did you know boxing has given us some of the most famous names in all of sport? Muhammad (Ali), Floyd (Mayweather), Joe (Frazier), and Mike (Tyson) carry stories of courage, comeback, and unmistakable showmanship.

Laila Ali

Professional boxer and daughter of Muhammad Ali

Girl

Angelo Dundee

Legendary boxing trainer for Muhammad Ali

Boy

Marcos Maidana

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Julio Cesar Chavez

Multiple-time world champion professional boxer

Boy

Tyson Fury

Two-time world heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Ismael Laguna

World champion boxer from Panama

Boy

Katelynn Phelan

Irish professional boxer

Girl

Arturo Gatti

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Saul Canelo Alvarez

Multiple-time world champion professional boxer

Boy

Esteban de Jesús

World champion lightweight boxer

Boy

Joe Louis

World heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Marvin Hagler

Undisputed world middleweight boxing champion

Boy

Conor McGregor

Professional mixed martial artist and boxer

Boy

Salvador Sánchez

World featherweight boxing champion

Boy

Lauryn Eagle

Australian professional boxer and water skier

Girl

Adonis Stevenson

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Muhammad Ali

Legendary heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Lennox Lewis

Undisputed heavyweight boxing champion

Unisex

Johnathon Banks

Professional boxer and trainer

Boy

Mohammad Ali

Legendary heavyweight boxing champion and activist

Boy

A boxing name carries fight in it — resilience, self-belief, and the will to get back up. For many parents, that quiet toughness is exactly the wish they want a name to hold.

Mohammed Ali

World heavyweight champion boxer and activist

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Sonny Liston

World heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Tyrell Biggs

Olympic gold medalist boxer

Boy

Arely Muciño

Mexican professional boxer and multi-time flyweight champion

Girl

Mike Tyson

Former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Misael Rodriguez

Olympic bronze medalist boxer

Boy

Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán

Professional boxer known as Canelo Alvarez

Boy

Cassius Clay

Birth name of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali

Boy

Jaron Ennis

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Rocky Marciano

Undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Aya Cissoko

French-Malian world champion boxer and author

Girl

Graciela Casillas

Pioneering female boxer and martial artist

Girl

Yamileth Mercado

Mexican professional boxer and WBC female super bantamweight champion

Girl

Jamel Herring

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Terence Crawford

Undisputed multi-weight world champion boxer

Boy

Johana Gomez

Venezuelan Olympic boxer

Girl

Alycia Baumgardner

American professional boxer and undisputed super featherweight champion

Girl

Abner Mares

Mexican-American world champion professional boxer

Boy

Maricela Cornejo

American professional boxer

Girl

Dereck Chisora

British professional boxer

Boy

Tayla Harris

Australian rules footballer and professional boxer

Girl

Marlen Esparza

Olympic bronze medalist in boxing

Girl

Zahir Raheem

Olympic and professional boxer

Boy

Raymundo Beltrán

Mexican professional boxer and former lightweight champion

Boy

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Undefeated professional boxer

Boy

Keyshawn Davis

Olympic silver medalist boxer

Boy

Mickey Ward

Professional boxer known as 'Irish' Micky Ward

Boy

Evander Holyfield

Four-time world heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Queen Underwood

Olympic boxer

Girl

Tye Fields

American heavyweight boxer

Boy

Genaro Hernández

Two-time world super featherweight boxing champion

Boy

Ken Norton

World heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Chevelle Hallback

Professional boxer and multi-weight world champion

Girl

Wilfredo Gomez

Puerto Rican professional boxer and three-time world champion

Boy

Bridgett Riley

World champion professional boxer and stuntwoman

Girl

Eder Jofre

Brazilian professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Danyelle Wolf

American professional boxer and mixed martial artist

Girl

Nicola Adams

Olympic gold medalist boxer

Unisex

Kelcie Banks

American world champion boxer

Girl

Jess Willard

World Heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Lenox Lewis

Professional boxer and heavyweight champion

Unisex

Filip Hrgović

Croatian professional boxer

Boy

Corrie Sanders

South African heavyweight boxing champion

Girl

Manny Pacquiao

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Jarrell Miller

American professional boxer

Boy

Alesia Graf

World champion professional boxer

Girl

Hussain Shah

Olympic bronze medalist boxer from Pakistan

Boy

Jameel McCline

Heavyweight professional boxer

Boy

Justis Huni

Australian professional heavyweight boxer

Unisex

Isra Girgrah

Five-time world champion professional boxer

Girl

Rosendo Alvarez

Nicaraguan professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Hilario Zapata

Two-weight world champion boxer from Panama

Boy

Ayub Kalule

Ugandan world champion boxer

Boy

Shakur Stevenson

Olympic silver medalist and professional boxing champion

Boy

Cleveland Williams

American heavyweight boxer known as 'Big Cat'

Boy

Derrell Dixon

Professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Terron Millett

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Kejuan Serrano

Professional boxer

Boy

Sharif Bogere

Professional boxer

Boy

Nino Benvenuti

World champion Italian boxer

Boy

Naseem Hamed

British professional boxer known as Prince Naseem

Boy

Buddy Baer

American heavyweight boxer and actor

Boy

Clemente Russo

Italian world champion boxer

Boy

Errol Spence Jr.

Professional world champion boxer

Boy

Mykal Fox

American professional boxer

Unisex

Crawford Grimsley

American heavyweight boxer and kickboxer

Boy

Wilfred Benitez

Three-time world champion boxer

Boy

Kelson Pinto

Brazilian professional boxer

Boy

Swayze Valentine

Professional cutman in boxing and MMA

Unisex

Romero Duno

Professional boxer

Boy

Mikey Garcia

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Tramaine Williams

Professional boxer

Boy

Kirkland Laing

British welterweight boxer

Boy

Gavino Matta

Italian flyweight boxer and Olympic silver medalist

Boy

Deontay Wilder

Professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Erickson Lubin

American professional boxer

Boy

Iran Barkley

Former professional boxer and three-weight world champion

Unisex

Rubin Carter

Middleweight boxer known as 'The Hurricane'

Boy

Lavern Roach

American middleweight boxer known as the 'Texas Thunderbolt'

Boy

Argenis Méndez

Dominican professional boxer and former world champion

Boy

Paulino Uzcudun

Spanish heavyweight boxer known as the Basque Woodchopper

Boy

Anselmo Moreno

Panamanian professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Celestino Caballero

Panamanian world champion professional boxer

Boy

Artur Beterbiev

Unified light-heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Teon Kennedy

American professional boxer

Boy

Jermain Taylor

Undisputed middleweight boxing champion

Boy

Jamonte Diggs

Professional boxer

Boy

Jahmal Harvey

World champion amateur boxer

Boy

Sona Akale

American professional boxer

Girl

Mikkel Kessler

Danish professional boxer and five-time super-middleweight champion

Boy

Narek Abgaryan

Olympic flyweight boxer

Boy

Silverio Ortiz

Professional boxer from Mexico

Boy

Regis Prograis

American professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Travell Mazion

Professional American junior middleweight boxer

Boy

Ikenna Enechukwu

Nigerian Olympic boxer

Boy

Arsen Goulamirian

WBA cruiserweight boxing champion

Boy

Dmitry Bivol

Professional world champion boxer

Boy

Ruslan Provodnikov

Russian professional boxer and former world champion

Boy

Renaldo Snipes

Professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Dillian Whyte

British professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Pernell Whitaker

Olympic gold medalist and four-weight world champion boxer

Boy

Aquiles Guzmán

Venezuelan professional boxer and flyweight champion

Boy

Young Corbett III

World Welterweight boxing champion

Boy

Tomasz Adamek

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Jamaine Ortiz

American professional boxer

Boy

Montell Griffin

Professional boxer and former light heavyweight champion

Boy

Lajuan Simon

Professional middleweight boxer

Boy

Derric Rossy

American heavyweight boxer

Boy

Delante Johnson

American professional boxer and Olympian

Boy

Jaevon Walton

Professional boxer and actor

Boy

Micky Ward

Professional boxer known as 'Irish' Micky Ward

Boy

Kina Malpartida

World champion professional boxer from Peru

Girl

Dimitry Bivol

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Jeison Rosario

Dominican professional boxer and former world champion

Boy

Sadaf Khadem

First Iranian female boxer to win an international match

Girl

Leone Efrati

Italian Jewish featherweight boxer

Unisex

Maxie Rosenbloom

World Light Heavyweight boxing champion and actor

Unisex

Eisa Al-Dah

Emirati professional boxer

Unisex

Jarrel Miller

American professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Buster Douglas

Heavyweight boxing champion who defeated Mike Tyson

Boy

Souleymane Mbaye

French world champion boxer

Boy

Tyrrell Biggs

Olympic gold medalist and professional boxer

Boy

Obie Walker

American heavyweight boxer

Boy

Jesselyn Silva

American three-time national boxing champion and subject of the documentary 'JessZilla'

Girl

Lamon Brewster

Former WBO heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Zakee Al-Hakeem

Professional boxer

Boy

Orlin Norris

Former cruiserweight world champion boxer

Boy

Andry Laffita

Olympic silver medalist boxer from Cuba

Boy

Lateef Kayode

Nigerian professional cruiserweight boxer

Boy

Richardson Hitchins

Professional boxer

Boy

Hanzel Martinez

Mexican professional boxer

Boy

Danell Nicholson

Professional heavyweight boxer

Unisex

Ginamarie Russo

Professional boxer

Girl

Librado Andrade

Mexican professional super middleweight boxer

Boy

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

Undisputed world middleweight boxing champion

Unisex

Tarrence Crawford

Professional boxer

Boy

Denys Berinchyk

Olympic silver medalist boxer

Unisex

Kassim Ouma

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Dahiana Santana

Dominican professional boxer and former world champion

Girl

Amandeep Singh

Indian Olympic boxer

Unisex

Tavoris Cloud

Former IBF light heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Raynaldo Snipes

Professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Imane Khelif

Olympic gold medalist boxer

Girl

Ramla Ali

Somali-British professional boxer and model

Girl

Geovana Peres

New Zealand professional boxer and light heavyweight champion

Girl

Vikas Krishan Yadav

Asian Games gold medalist boxer

Boy

Barney Ross

World champion boxer in three weight divisions

Boy

Jermell Charlo

Undisputed light middleweight world champion boxer

Boy

Ronica Jeffrey

Professional boxer

Girl

Andrzej Gołota

Professional heavyweight boxer

Boy

Teofilo Stevenson

Three-time Olympic gold medalist heavyweight boxer

Boy

Mandeep Jangra

Indian professional boxer and Commonwealth Games medalist

Unisex

Nazim Richardson

Influential American boxing trainer

Boy

Primo Carnera

Italian professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion

Boy

Seferino Garcia

Filipino world middleweight champion boxer

Boy

Casimiro Marciano de Oliveira

Olympic boxer from Brazil

Boy

Canelo Álvarez

World champion professional boxer

Boy

Hiroto Kyoguchi

Professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Crisanto España

WBA Welterweight champion boxer

Boy

Ryota Murata

Olympic gold medalist and professional boxer

Boy

Koki Kameda

Former world champion professional boxer

Boy

Marvis Frazier

American heavyweight boxer and son of Joe Frazier

Boy

Jahon Qurbonov

Olympic boxer from Tajikistan

Boy

Roniel Iglesias

Cuban Olympic gold medalist boxer

Boy

Eissa Al-Dah

Professional boxer from the United Arab Emirates

Boy

Rendell Munroe

British professional boxer known as the Boxing Binman

Boy

Daouda Sow

Olympic silver medalist boxer from France

Boy

Billal Bennama

French Olympic silver medalist in boxing

Boy

Giordana Sorrentino

Italian Olympic boxer

Girl

Chevon Clarke

Olympic boxer

Unisex

Deyonte Wilder

Professional American boxer and heavyweight champion

Boy

Franck Petitjean

Professional boxer

Boy

Brahim Asloum

Olympic gold medalist boxer

Boy

Yuniel Dorticos

Cuban professional boxer and former world cruiserweight champion

Boy

Vonda Ward

Professional boxer and basketball player

Girl

Kell Brook

British professional boxer and former world champion

Boy

Jem Mace

English bare-knuckle boxing champion

Unisex

Vitali Klitschko

Former heavyweight boxing champion and Mayor of Kyiv

Boy

Sumit Sangwan

Olympic boxer

Boy

Charisa Sigala

American mixed martial artist and bare-knuckle boxer

Girl

Abass Baraou

German professional boxer

Boy

Mylik Birdsong

Professional American boxer

Boy

Vasily Lomachenko

Ukrainian professional boxer and Olympic gold medalist

Boy

Zolani Tete

World champion professional boxer

Girl

Enock Poulsen

Danish professional boxer

Boy

Neon Leon

Professional boxer Leon Spinks' nickname

Boy

Kosei Tanaka

Professional world champion boxer

Boy

Shondell Alfred

Guyanese professional boxer and former world champion

Boy

Freeda Foreman

Professional boxer and daughter of George Foreman

Girl

Egor Mekhontsev

Olympic gold medalist boxer

Boy

Oleksandr Usyk

Undisputed heavyweight boxing champion

Boy

Gennady Golovkin

Professional boxer and multi-time middleweight champion

Boy

Catalino Figueroa

Puerto Rican Olympic boxer

Boy

Hovhannes Bachkov

Olympic medalist in boxing

Boy

Myke Tyson

Heavyweight boxing champion (alternate spelling usage)

Boy

Eliberto Sanchez

Mexican professional boxer

Boy

Innocent Anyanwu

Professional boxer

Boy

Claressa Shields

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional boxer

Girl

Mihai Leu

Professional boxer and rally driver

Boy

Mate Parlov

Olympic gold medalist and professional boxing champion

Boy

Josniel Ruiz

Cuban professional boxer

Boy

Brandun Lee

American professional boxer

Boy

Dariusz Michalczewski

Former professional boxer and world champion

Boy

Olanrewaju Durodola

Olympic boxer and WBC Silver cruiserweight champion

Boy

Duilio Loi

Italian world champion boxer

Boy

Bartley Gorman

Famous bare-knuckle boxer known as King of the Gypsies

Boy

Leotis Martin

American heavyweight boxer and first NABF champion

Boy

Aleksy Antkiewicz

Olympic silver medalist in boxing

Boy

Argelio Ruiz

Cuban Olympic boxer

Boy