Boy Names Ending In B
Boys' names ending in B, 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
- 0.82%
- vs 2.6% in 2000
- Names in use
- 87
- 284 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1998
- at 2.6% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #17
- by 2025 share
How B has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in B, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,152#43 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 5,217#58 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 1,143#295 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 135#1,372 | Down 488 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 81#1,926 | Down 357 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 49#2,659 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 36#3,270 | Down 599 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 12#7,185 | Down 899 rank positions in five years | 1979 | |||
| 14#6,255 | Down 1,778 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 31#3,614 | Down 1,307 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 16#5,837 | Down 1,428 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 85#1,854 | Up 94 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 63#2,232 | Up 497 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 26#4,090 | Down 990 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 9#8,369 | Down 3,927 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 60#2,319 | Up 1,749 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 54#2,491 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 29#3,789 | Up 398 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 67#2,160 | Up 554 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 42#2,979 | Up 277 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 11#7,384 | Up 1,690 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 10#8,108 | Up 3,606 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 39#3,123 | Up 604 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 16#5,855 | Up 2,204 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 14#6,402 | Up 2,233 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 45#2,800 | Up 778 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 10#7,818 | Up 2,031 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 29#3,814 | Up 1,336 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 10#7,712 | Up 1,086 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 11#7,609 | Down 1,363 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 14#6,393 | Up 584 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 13#6,447 | Up 3,122 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 40#3,065 | Up 1,736 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 13#6,449 | Up 1,634 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 14#6,429 | Down 2,017 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 19#5,055 | Up 201 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 10#8,139 | Up 3,663 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 20#4,936 | Up 5,084 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 14#6,228 | Up 171 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#6,685 | Up 3,555 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 12#7,121 | Up 2,302 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 11#7,600 | Up 6,158 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 15#6,126 | Up 1,908 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 12#7,168 | Up 4,791 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#5,706 | Up 7,226 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 14#6,326 | Up 7,057 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 12#7,059 | Up 6,373 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 23#4,490 | new | 2025 | |||
| 12#7,010 | new | 2025 | |||
| 21#4,763 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest B 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.