Boy Names Ending In -Son
Boys' names ending in -son, 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
- 4.1%
- vs 2.1% in 2000
- Names in use
- 227
- 507 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2018
- at 5.1% of names
- Most popular now
- Hudson
- of 227 in use
How -son has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in -son, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,224#165 | Down 46 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 6,291#39 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 6,582#36 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 3,072#116 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,416#152 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 300#825 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 2,365#156 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,609#137 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,439#149 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 2,487#143 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 405#673 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 565#531 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 384#700 | Down 171 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 898#363 | Down 57 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,371#254 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 298#831 | Down 125 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 690#453 | Down 187 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 324#786 | Down 307 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 830#381 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,662#136 | Up 351 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,305#264 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 480#597 | Down 231 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 1,214#279 | Up 273 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 252#934 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 639#477 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 276#870 | Down 271 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 291#846 | Down 179 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 211#1,046 | Down 192 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 648#471 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,099#311 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 165#1,222 | Down 347 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 557#540 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 224#1,011 | Down 408 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 296#835 | Down 126 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 151#1,294 | Down 379 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 108#1,576 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 123#1,456 | Down 319 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 257#919 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 98#1,679 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 112#1,540 | Down 406 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 140#1,348 | Down 180 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 292#844 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 126#1,433 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 129#1,413 | Up 268 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 269#887 | Up 174 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 300#824 | Up 1,258 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 121#1,470 | Up 1,310 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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-son names climbing fastest
Biggest -son 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. Names ending in -son also count toward names ending in N — a suffix is a slice of its last letter, not a separate universe. 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.