Boy Names Ending In A
Boys' names ending in A, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the ending itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 2.5%
- vs 2.1% in 2000
- Names in use
- 472
- 2,105 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1989
- at 2.7% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #12
- by 2025 share
How A has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in A, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every ending would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,773#66 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 8,126#20 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,074#319 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 8,759#14 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 301#822 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,873#85 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 622#483 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 322#789 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 556#541 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 111#1,552 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 757#425 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 351#741 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 285#855 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 1,281#269 | Up 313 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 339#761 | Up 284 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 778#411 | Up 178 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 651#470 | Up 274 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 83#1,886 | Down 199 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 455#616 | Up 390 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 114#1,525 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 181#1,156 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 102#1,651 | Down 412 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 69#2,114 | Down 236 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 149#1,308 | Down 550 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 253#933 | Up 368 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 114#1,528 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 71#2,079 | Up 34 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 121#1,466 | Down 203 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 225#1,007 | Up 520 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 95#1,716 | Up 142 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 189#1,130 | Up 266 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 92#1,769 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 225#1,006 | Up 1,248 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 107#1,598 | Up 396 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 69#2,120 | Up 409 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 98#1,682 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 231#990 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 138#1,360 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 94#1,741 | Up 323 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 135#1,375 | Up 451 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 169#1,199 | Down 162 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 152#1,289 | Up 355 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 155#1,274 | Up 358 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 253#929 | Up 610 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 191#1,119 | Up 987 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 106#1,606 | Up 432 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 72#2,057 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 87#1,831 | Up 620 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 85#1,855 | Up 363 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 69#2,121 | Up 287 rank positions in five years | 2023 |
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A names climbing fastest
Biggest A names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other ending
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single ending the stricter one leaves some endings empty. Ending shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because ending fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.