Boy Names Ending In Y
Boys' names ending in Y, 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
- 4.7%
- vs 7.3% in 2000
- Names in use
- 664
- 2,475 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1959
- at 16.1% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #8
- by 2025 share
How Y has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in Y, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,967#46 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 1,734#203 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 544#552 | Down 166 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 12,020#5 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 493#593 | Down 158 rank positions in five years | 1962 | |||
| 1,646#216 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 1,152#292 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 329#775 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 570#525 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 682#458 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 794#403 | Down 130 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 1,076#318 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 445#628 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 325#784 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 5,578#52 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 563#533 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 319#792 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 809#392 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 327#778 | Down 248 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 420#658 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 1,381#251 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,072#320 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 1,666#208 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,071#321 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 524#565 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,492#236 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,156#291 | Down 80 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,649#215 | Down 74 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 455#615 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 851#373 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 354#739 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 306#813 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 515#573 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 1,768#199 | Up 131 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 301#823 | Up 511 rank positions in five years | 1949 | |||
| 606#499 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 520#568 | Up 292 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 422#654 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1977 | |||
| 1,137#298 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 305#815 | Down 76 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,017#333 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 781#408 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 688#454 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 453#619 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 341#754 | Up 213 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 340#757 | Down 146 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 357#736 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 309#806 | Up 124 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 548#549 | Up 500 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 374#721 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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Y names climbing fastest
Biggest Y 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.