Boy Names Ending In C
Boys' names ending in C, 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
- 0.79%
- vs 1.4% in 2000
- Names in use
- 81
- 279 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1976
- at 1.8% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #18
- by 2025 share
How C has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in C, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,256#273 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 5,953#47 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 3,277#106 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 162#1,237 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 234#977 | Down 389 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 209#1,051 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 258#915 | Down 288 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 42#2,952 | Up 340 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 390#696 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 60#2,310 | Down 369 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 15#5,943 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 24#4,258 | Down 1,119 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 11#7,301 | Down 1,258 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 132#1,391 | Down 431 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 205#1,063 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 150#1,298 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 33#3,482 | Down 952 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 22#4,599 | Down 845 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 18#5,257 | Down 1,900 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 44#2,855 | Down 681 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 30#3,705 | Down 1,580 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 10#7,876 | Down 2,953 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 16#5,723 | Down 938 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 17#5,489 | Down 879 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 36#3,262 | Down 934 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 37#3,236 | Down 654 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 27#3,974 | Up 600 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 60#2,314 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 12#6,883 | Down 2,319 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 19#5,110 | Down 179 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 108#1,574 | Up 1,517 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 15#5,964 | Up 3,080 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 24#4,285 | Up 1,496 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 21#4,808 | Down 2,277 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 17#5,404 | Up 2,110 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 13#6,481 | Down 754 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 26#4,097 | Down 637 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 11#7,202 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 22#4,632 | Up 2,240 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 29#3,780 | Down 338 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 11#7,628 | Up 362 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 13#6,669 | Up 649 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 19#5,087 | Down 627 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#6,584 | new | 2018 | |||
| 18#5,325 | Down 690 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 22#4,588 | Up 6,451 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 10#8,065 | new | 2015 | |||
| 12#6,852 | Up 5,392 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 45#2,821 | new | 2025 | |||
| 10#7,987 | new | 2025 |
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C names climbing fastest
Biggest C 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.