Boy Names Ending In M
Boys' names ending in M, 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
- 3.7%
- vs 2.1% in 2000
- Names in use
- 421
- 1,061 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1880
- at 10.2% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #9
- by 2025 share
How M has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in M, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,545#9 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,501#101 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 20,818#1 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 428#647 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,664#209 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,257#272 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 2,967#120 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,185#168 | Up 80 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 350#742 | Down 189 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 383#702 | Down 63 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 939#351 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,995#118 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 103#1,639 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 1,736#202 | Up 288 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 411#666 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 125#1,442 | Down 335 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 231#988 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 198#1,088 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 114#1,524 | Down 410 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 198#1,084 | Down 84 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 117#1,502 | Down 543 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 91#1,775 | Up 65 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 214#1,034 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 97#1,695 | Down 97 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 400#679 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,085#313 | Up 870 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 313#799 | Up 130 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 88#1,810 | Down 276 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 236#971 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 83#1,888 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 91#1,771 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 155#1,273 | Up 324 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 131#1,395 | Up 312 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 271#880 | Up 536 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,694 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 95#1,725 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 175#1,176 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 198#1,086 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 76#1,998 | Up 57 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 125#1,441 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 105#1,613 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 79#1,957 | Up 249 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 160#1,251 | Up 1,668 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,690 | Up 427 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 194#1,110 | Up 1,907 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 106#1,608 | Up 1,193 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 114#1,522 | Up 728 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 147#1,318 | Up 1,846 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 98#1,681 | Up 2,377 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 112#1,542 | new | 2024 |
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M names climbing fastest
Biggest M 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.