Boy Names Ending In P
Boys' names ending in P, 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
- 0.14%
- vs 0.18% in 2000
- Names in use
- 27
- 132 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1949
- at 0.66% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #24
- by 2025 share
How P has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in P, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 568#528 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 425#651 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 572#522 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 104#1,626 | Up 168 rank positions in five years | 1965 | |||
| 172#1,188 | Down 209 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 24#4,273 | Down 1,609 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 66#2,173 | Up 3,411 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 42#2,951 | Down 756 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 13#6,743 | Up 1,220 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 20#4,953 | Up 3,456 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 25#4,153 | Down 493 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 5#13,399 | Down 6,863 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 59#2,348 | Up 86 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 51#2,595 | Down 1,110 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 7#10,141 | Down 2,371 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 33#3,450 | Up 468 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 17#5,584 | Down 380 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 25#4,233 | Up 1,420 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 10#7,910 | Down 682 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 24#4,269 | Up 6,550 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8#9,558 | new | 2017 | |||
| 14#6,272 | Up 2,860 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 26#4,088 | new | 2025 | |||
| 11#7,543 | Up 5,987 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5#12,694 | new | 2014 | |||
| 5#13,543 | new | 2017 | |||
| 7#10,584 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest P 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.