Boy Names Ending In R
Boys' names ending in R, 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
- 9.5%
- vs 8.6% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,245
- 3,144 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2022
- at 9.6% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #2
- by 2025 share
How R has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in R, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,748#68 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 7,230#30 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 1,381#252 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,633#220 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 1,954#187 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,664#211 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 14,939#3 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 2,761#130 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,211#166 | Down 88 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 1,620#223 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 6,024#45 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 3,232#108 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 617#486 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 3,477#102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 908#360 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 7,472#27 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,252#274 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,333#260 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 641#475 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 824#385 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,710#133 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,941#122 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,804#129 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 3,297#105 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,008#181 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 4,204#78 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,003#183 | Down 35 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,335#259 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 3,139#111 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 790#404 | Down 160 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 3,627#98 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,265#270 | Down 108 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 804#397 | Down 116 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 597#506 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 531#560 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 578#518 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 815#390 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 617#487 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 549#547 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 864#369 | Up 330 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,354#157 | Up 815 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 495#592 | Up 69 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 822#386 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,640#217 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 743#431 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 546#551 | Up 99 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 541#554 | Up 77 rank positions in five years | 2024 |
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R names climbing fastest
Biggest R 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.