Boy Names Ending In Q
Boys' names ending in Q, 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
- 0.02%
- vs 0.04% in 2000
- Names in use
- 18
- 69 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1998
- at 0.05% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #26
- by 2025 share
How Q has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in Q, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 107#1,599 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 31#3,649 | Up 257 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 6#11,498 | Down 6,857 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 9#8,602 | Down 3,238 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 45#2,813 | Up 1,045 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 18#5,353 | Up 1,603 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 8#9,542 | Down 2,144 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 6#11,830 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 6#11,008 | new | 2002 | |||
| 9#8,502 | Up 537 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#7,479 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 6#11,098 | Up 1,558 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 8#9,603 | new | 2004 | |||
| 6#11,564 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 7#10,051 | Up 2,705 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 28#3,906 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#13,279 | new | 2024 | |||
| 7#9,862 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest Q 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.