Boy Names Ending In X
Boys' names ending in X, 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
- 1.1%
- vs 0.54% in 2000
- Names in use
- 121
- 220 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2022
- at 1.2% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #15
- by 2025 share
How X has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in X, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,515#232 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,025#180 | Down 33 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 2,064#175 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 281#859 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 1,664#210 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 961#342 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,027#329 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 1,836#196 | Up 42 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,160#289 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 933#354 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 393#692 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 881#365 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 92#1,761 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 60#2,322 | Down 515 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 129#1,411 | Down 491 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 113#1,533 | Down 420 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 195#1,102 | Down 223 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 236#970 | Up 338 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 187#1,133 | Up 133 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 33#3,501 | Up 1,021 rank positions in five years | 1940 | |||
| 139#1,356 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 44#2,865 | Down 1,162 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 34#3,416 | Down 1,380 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 177#1,168 | Up 124 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 104#1,625 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 59#2,334 | Down 215 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 75#2,013 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 72#2,074 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 75#2,010 | Up 686 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 70#2,099 | Up 577 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 24#4,335 | Up 1,050 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 29#3,824 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 47#2,730 | Down 282 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 43#2,911 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 41#3,000 | Down 193 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 36#3,242 | Up 899 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 21#4,757 | new | 2025 | |||
| 20#4,894 | Down 1,956 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 21#4,727 | Down 1,585 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 45#2,822 | Up 1,159 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 55#2,455 | Up 1,125 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 22#4,660 | Up 1,874 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 34#3,424 | Up 1,558 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 29#3,777 | Up 801 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 28#3,897 | Up 725 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 30#3,717 | Up 917 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 33#3,483 | Up 2,114 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 22#4,598 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 27#4,014 | Up 5,296 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 23#4,518 | Up 2,915 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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X names climbing fastest
Biggest X 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.