Boy Names Ending In L
Boys' names ending in L, 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
- 6.7%
- vs 7.9% in 2000
- Names in use
- 877
- 3,401 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1967
- at 10.9% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #6
- by 2025 share
How L has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in L, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,094#21 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 8,085#22 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 1,316#262 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 8,334#18 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 6,569#37 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 944#345 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 2,565#140 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 1,633#219 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 4,757#67 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 860#371 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,661#212 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,924#189 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 977#340 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 2,035#179 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,639#218 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 440#634 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 5,091#61 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 4,140#79 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 1,081#315 | Down 78 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,525#231 | Down 50 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 513#574 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 635#478 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 3,860#86 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,307#263 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 535#557 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 419#659 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 3,921#84 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 942#350 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 826#384 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 807#394 | Up 119 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 442#632 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 533#558 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 708#446 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 943#348 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 364#731 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 640#476 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 359#734 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,780#198 | Up 381 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,043#327 | Up 283 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,975#186 | Up 309 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 554#543 | Up 394 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 466#607 | Down 87 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 337#764 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 503#586 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 566#529 | Up 595 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 432#645 | Up 485 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 421#656 | Up 272 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 398#683 | Up 522 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 317#795 | Up 1,326 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 336#767 | Up 1,609 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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L names climbing fastest
Biggest L 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.