Boy Names Ending In V
Boys' names ending in V, 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
- 0.21%
- vs 0.05% in 2000
- Names in use
- 90
- 177 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2024
- at 0.21% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #20
- by 2025 share
How V has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in V, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 377#710 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 218#1,025 | Up 80 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 277#866 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 195#1,100 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 30#3,685 | Down 593 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 56#2,440 | Down 553 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 123#1,453 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 43#2,886 | Down 593 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 153#1,286 | Up 150 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 126#1,427 | Up 211 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 227#1,001 | Up 108 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 187#1,132 | Down 114 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 92#1,766 | Up 210 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 11#7,196 | Down 3,850 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 69#2,118 | Up 748 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 87#1,835 | Up 2,981 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 209#1,053 | Up 1,285 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 131#1,393 | Up 207 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 17#5,410 | Down 1,490 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 73#2,050 | Up 822 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 16#5,768 | Down 1,990 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 36#3,248 | Up 407 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 34#3,417 | Up 1,960 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 16#5,828 | Up 1,631 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 10#7,675 | Down 3,139 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 13#6,701 | Up 3,577 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 20#4,971 | Down 1,432 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 65#2,196 | Up 441 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 32#3,569 | Up 2,077 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 9#8,240 | Down 3,389 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 22#4,623 | Up 1,231 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 17#5,397 | Down 545 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 14#6,367 | Up 4,003 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 21#4,718 | Up 2,353 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#5,854 | Up 2,874 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 16#5,717 | Up 1,536 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 23#4,405 | Down 262 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 19#5,050 | Up 2,498 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 18#5,261 | Up 2,990 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 10#8,032 | new | 2014 | |||
| 30#3,735 | Up 1,672 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 25#4,173 | new | 2025 | |||
| 22#4,671 | Up 8,947 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,844 | new | 1994 | |||
| 13#6,472 | new | 2024 | |||
| 10#8,022 | Up 2,192 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 9#8,761 | Down 1,824 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 16#5,810 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,749 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,769 | new | 2025 |
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V names climbing fastest
Biggest V 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.