Boy Names Ending In F
Boys' names ending in F, 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
- 0.18%
- vs 0.09% in 2000
- Names in use
- 65
- 184 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1962
- at 0.49% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #22
- by 2025 share
How F has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in F, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35#3,341 | Down 526 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 698#450 | Up 123 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 413#665 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 257#917 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 43#2,894 | Down 228 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 44#2,859 | Down 736 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 349#745 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 110#1,562 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 83#1,904 | Up 560 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 7#10,508 | Down 6,113 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 147#1,320 | Up 526 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 88#1,824 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 24#4,322 | Down 1,501 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 59#2,361 | Down 631 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 83#1,902 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 54#2,509 | Down 167 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 17#5,491 | Down 874 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 9#8,802 | Down 3,799 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 29#3,762 | Up 1,708 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 34#3,443 | Down 1,079 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 8#9,201 | Down 3,878 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 10#7,713 | Up 410 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 14#6,293 | Down 438 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 13#6,478 | Up 4,240 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 10#7,859 | Up 4,879 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 32#3,515 | Up 2,191 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 9#8,805 | new | 1990 | |||
| 16#5,843 | Up 764 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 18#5,224 | Up 500 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 13#6,713 | Up 6,865 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 15#5,900 | Down 2,619 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 16#5,781 | new | 2010 | |||
| 24#4,343 | Up 2,179 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 50#2,632 | Up 1,471 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 14#6,389 | Up 170 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 10#8,225 | Up 2,340 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 12#7,172 | Up 1,532 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#6,788 | Up 2,739 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 12#7,174 | Up 2,352 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 9#8,305 | Down 1,241 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 7#10,651 | Down 87 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 11#7,587 | Up 6,111 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 9#8,863 | Up 640 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 8#9,680 | new | 2016 | |||
| 7#9,834 | new | 2021 | |||
| 7#10,167 | Up 1,096 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 9#8,373 | new | 2025 | |||
| 6#11,182 | new | 2023 | |||
| 7#9,742 | new | 2025 | |||
| 6#10,790 | new | 2004 |
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F names climbing fastest
Biggest F 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.