Boy Names Ending In N
Boys' names ending in N, 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
- 28.0%
- vs 31.3% in 2000
- Names in use
- 3,942
- 12,053 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2011
- at 36.4% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #1
- by 2025 share
How N has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in N, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,027#23 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,532#99 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 3,822#89 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 9,762#11 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 4,041#80 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 4,975#63 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 7,852#24 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 3,641#96 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 3,103#113 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 6,208#41 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 2,732#131 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 5,576#53 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 6,291#39 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 4,348#76 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 6,582#36 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 4,464#74 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 7,603#25 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 5,046#62 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 3,924#83 | Steady | 2005 | |||
| 4,653#70 | Down 33 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 7,190#31 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,710#132 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 8,605#16 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,876#125 | Up 51 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 2,840#127 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,583#138 | Up 58 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 3,420#103 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 4,846#65 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,883#124 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 5,805#51 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 8,583#17 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,073#115 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 3,213#109 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 4,703#69 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 6,162#42 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,072#116 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,416#152 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 3,198#110 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 5,482#55 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,678#135 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 2,609#137 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,439#149 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 2,570#139 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 5,408#56 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,487#143 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 5,212#59 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,496#142 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 2,662#136 | Up 351 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,448#147 | Up 208 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,636#97 | Up 774 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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N names climbing fastest
Biggest N 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.