Boy Names Ending In W
Boys' names ending in W, 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
- 0.87%
- vs 2.8% in 2000
- Names in use
- 34
- 123 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1987
- at 4.7% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #16
- by 2025 share
How W has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in W, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,003#32 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1983 | |||
| 4,497#73 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 541#553 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 235#975 | Down 262 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 102#1,653 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,352#256 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 39#3,092 | Up 1,344 rank positions in five years | 1969 | |||
| 476#601 | Up 106 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 167#1,214 | Up 1,032 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 5#13,138 | new | 1959 | |||
| 60#2,323 | Up 1,660 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 44#2,877 | Up 390 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 77#1,976 | Down 761 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 21#4,835 | Down 1,814 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 7#10,312 | Down 1,063 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 32#3,527 | Up 3,192 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 15#6,088 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 9#8,820 | Up 4,953 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 23#4,529 | Up 496 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 6#11,937 | Down 3,905 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 38#3,132 | Up 2,336 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#7,586 | Down 1,028 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 13#6,502 | Up 2,345 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#7,462 | Down 970 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 14#6,399 | Down 462 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 5#13,717 | Down 5,720 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 7#9,822 | Up 2,416 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 8#9,327 | Down 916 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 6#11,934 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 5#13,019 | new | 2015 | |||
| 9#8,560 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#9,907 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#12,318 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#13,158 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest W 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.