Boy Names Ending In U
Boys' names ending in U, 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
- 0.47%
- vs 0.09% in 2000
- Names in use
- 105
- 325 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2025
- at 0.47% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #19
- by 2025 share
How U has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in U, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,165#60 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 427#649 | Down 134 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 81#1,929 | Up 410 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 496#591 | Up 223 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 162#1,236 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 37#3,204 | Down 170 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 58#2,366 | Up 108 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 86#1,839 | Down 485 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 20#4,977 | Down 1,868 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 92#1,760 | Up 882 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 59#2,352 | Down 360 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 105#1,611 | Down 186 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 14#6,212 | Down 1,126 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 40#3,036 | Up 102 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 17#5,588 | Down 744 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 35#3,367 | Up 2,050 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 31#3,609 | Up 869 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 11#7,497 | Down 2,114 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 57#2,390 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 10#7,942 | Up 3,351 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 115#1,516 | Up 289 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 23#4,485 | Up 482 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 15#5,994 | Down 1,215 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 77#1,986 | Up 1,319 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 10#7,822 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 43#2,889 | Up 1,041 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 12#7,022 | Up 267 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 13#6,726 | Down 2,336 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#5,608 | Up 3,135 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 10#7,770 | Up 4,619 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 20#4,985 | Up 1,531 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 14#6,349 | Down 1,689 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 14#6,316 | Up 5,146 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 36#3,252 | Up 406 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 16#5,726 | Up 7,408 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 11#7,191 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 29#3,793 | Up 1,121 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 28#3,847 | Up 2,134 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 68#2,141 | Up 3,816 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 10#7,866 | Down 2,060 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 14#6,268 | Up 982 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#7,212 | Up 2,396 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 11#7,629 | Up 6,233 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 41#3,033 | Up 3,557 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#5,770 | Up 1,580 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 30#3,743 | Up 1,933 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 11#7,578 | Up 6,101 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 11#7,447 | Up 992 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 10#7,932 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 13#6,625 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest U 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.