Boy Names Ending In -En
Boys' names ending in -en, 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
- 4.9%
- vs 3.2% in 2000
- Names in use
- 757
- 1,978 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2011
- at 7.6% of names
- Most popular now
- Owen
- of 757 in use
How -en has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in -en, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,261#271 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 829#383 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 507#578 | Down 115 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 5,046#62 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 4,653#70 | Down 33 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 7,190#31 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,471#240 | Up 103 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,545#229 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 632#480 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 2,268#161 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,343#257 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 768#421 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 2,678#135 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,742#201 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,034#328 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 935#352 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,722#205 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,476#237 | Down 98 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 774#414 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 907#361 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 711#443 | Up 104 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 454#618 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,140#297 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,657#214 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 475#602 | Down 219 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,590#225 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 479#598 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,207#282 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 380#709 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 366#725 | Down 224 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 1,292#266 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 739#432 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 375#718 | Down 240 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 466#609 | Down 98 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 622#484 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 551#544 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 665#464 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 579#516 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,143#296 | Up 345 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 617#488 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 402#676 | Up 135 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 772#415 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 448#623 | Up 568 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 333#769 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 504#584 | Up 622 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 895#364 | Up 1,220 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 540#555 | Up 919 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 558#537 | Up 1,196 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 523#566 | Up 1,350 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 571#523 | Up 2,621 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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-en names climbing fastest
Biggest -en 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. Names ending in -en also count toward names ending in N — a suffix is a slice of its last letter, not a separate universe. 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.