Boy Names Ending In I
Boys' names ending in I, 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
- 3.6%
- vs 0.94% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,001
- 2,352 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2023
- at 3.6% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #10
- by 2025 share
How I has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in I, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,642#12 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,418#104 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 2,939#123 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 3,768#93 | Steady | 2022 | |||
| 2,692#134 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,000#185 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 808#393 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,657#213 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 571#524 | Down 170 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 609#495 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 509#576 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,301#265 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 397#687 | Down 187 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 811#391 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 176#1,174 | Down 392 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 469#605 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 172#1,189 | Down 247 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 195#1,101 | Down 87 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 626#481 | Up 69 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 168#1,208 | Down 167 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 186#1,139 | Up 55 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 191#1,118 | Down 150 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 238#967 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 297#832 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 249#944 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 243#958 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 462#613 | Up 270 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 193#1,114 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 207#1,059 | Up 154 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 295#837 | Down 171 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 200#1,079 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 323#787 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 519#569 | Up 516 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 528#563 | Up 341 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 195#1,106 | Up 304 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 472#604 | Up 691 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 175#1,179 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 206#1,062 | Up 79 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 215#1,032 | Up 417 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 377#713 | Up 561 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 257#918 | Up 527 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 719#439 | Up 1,714 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 307#809 | Up 455 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 173#1,187 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 554#542 | Up 1,780 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 437#639 | Up 1,846 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 191#1,121 | Up 1,942 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 167#1,215 | Up 1,733 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 219#1,022 | Up 7,363 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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I names climbing fastest
Biggest I 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.