Boy Names Ending In J
Boys' names ending in J, 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
- 0.08%
- vs 0.05% in 2000
- Names in use
- 58
- 137 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2024
- at 0.09% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #25
- by 2025 share
How J has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in J, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 217#1,027 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 100#1,667 | Down 519 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 112#1,544 | Down 461 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 80#1,932 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 22#4,670 | Down 286 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 26#4,129 | Down 648 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 144#1,338 | Up 173 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 27#3,966 | Down 1,301 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 55#2,476 | Down 267 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 13#6,751 | Down 504 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 24#4,357 | Down 358 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 18#5,255 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 39#3,104 | Up 859 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 13#6,757 | Down 1,920 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 24#4,371 | Down 250 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 7#9,754 | Down 3,453 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 19#5,191 | Down 2,931 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 20#4,972 | Up 897 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 16#5,801 | Down 1,554 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 96#1,700 | Up 2,328 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 16#5,621 | Up 95 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 6#10,780 | Up 1,364 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 15#6,082 | Up 2,520 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 16#5,676 | Up 1,993 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 16#5,759 | Up 3,508 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 10#8,126 | Down 1,163 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 11#7,473 | Up 993 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 12#7,017 | Up 4,353 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 15#5,929 | Up 460 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7#10,418 | Down 1,083 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 8#9,249 | Down 1,493 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 16#5,763 | Up 3,507 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 12#7,054 | Up 287 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 12#7,067 | Up 3,199 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 19#5,095 | Up 1,660 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 13#6,716 | Up 2,634 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 7#9,730 | Down 1,658 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 8#9,600 | new | 2007 | |||
| 10#7,802 | Up 2,022 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 6#11,816 | new | 2013 | |||
| 11#7,242 | Up 3,495 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 16#5,609 | new | 2025 | |||
| 10#7,728 | Up 1,929 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 18#5,379 | new | 2025 | |||
| 6#11,002 | Down 2,066 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 7#9,805 | new | 2019 | |||
| 7#9,758 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#12,683 | new | 2018 | |||
| 6#11,134 | new | 2019 | |||
| 6#11,820 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest J 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.