Boy Names Ending In H
Boys' names ending in H, 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
- 5.4%
- vs 4.3% in 2000
- Names in use
- 608
- 1,691 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2020
- at 5.5% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #7
- by 2025 share
How H has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in H, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,303#29 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 1,148#294 | Down 51 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 20,358#2 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 311#801 | Down 203 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 211#1,048 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 11,111#7 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 5,267#57 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 3,840#88 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 505#581 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 5,509#54 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 3,817#90 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,828#128 | Steady | 2008 | |||
| 360#732 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 2,050#178 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 558#538 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 253#932 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 1974 | |||
| 1,181#287 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,666#207 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 1,357#255 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 743#429 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 1,183#286 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 439#635 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 651#469 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 348#746 | Up 39 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 427#650 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 285#856 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 621#485 | Up 93 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 607#498 | Up 34 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,220#278 | Up 337 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 337#763 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 274#876 | Down 153 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 645#472 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 221#1,015 | Down 275 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 154#1,277 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 277#865 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 207#1,056 | Down 259 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 266#896 | Up 311 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 153#1,281 | Up 170 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 259#914 | Up 314 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 175#1,177 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 176#1,170 | Up 245 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 331#773 | Up 562 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 346#749 | Up 997 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 271#881 | Up 1,901 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 260#912 | Up 1,060 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 168#1,211 | Up 379 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 465#610 | Up 2,201 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 164#1,227 | Up 1,464 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 151#1,293 | Up 341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 155#1,270 | Up 550 rank positions in five years | 2023 |
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H names climbing fastest
Biggest H 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.