Boy Names Ending In S
Boys' names ending in S, 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
- 8.5%
- vs 7.4% in 2000
- Names in use
- 883
- 3,306 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1880
- at 16.7% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #3
- by 2025 share
How S has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in S, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,945#6 | Steady | 1947 | |||
| 5,898#48 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 6,917#34 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 3,115#112 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 1,391#249 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 10,219#10 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 732#434 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 2,418#150 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 2,475#144 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 769#420 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 2,078#173 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 1,341#258 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 736#433 | Up 64 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 8,837#13 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,072#44 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,053#177 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,744#200 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 759#424 | Down 89 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 4,639#71 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,475#238 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 584#513 | Down 32 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 3,511#100 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 4,877#64 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 579#517 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,417#243 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,161#288 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 583#515 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,249#276 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,201#283 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,284#268 | Up 101 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 910#358 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 4,413#75 | Up 113 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,140#170 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 783#407 | Up 92 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,462#241 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 2,240#162 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 755#426 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,208#281 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 1,087#312 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 778#412 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 854#372 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 591#510 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 504#583 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 921#356 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 717#440 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,157#290 | Up 306 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 944#347 | Up 199 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,099#310 | Up 443 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 504#582 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 511#575 | Up 820 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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S names climbing fastest
Biggest S 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.