Boy Names Ending In Z
Boys' names ending in Z, 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
- 0.19%
- vs 0.15% in 2000
- Names in use
- 111
- 398 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2021
- at 0.20% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #21
- by 2025 share
How Z has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in Z, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,025#331 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 101#1,655 | Down 255 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 22#4,567 | Down 2,643 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 47#2,727 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 42#2,964 | Down 857 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 107#1,592 | Down 761 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 20#4,975 | Down 1,730 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 268#891 | Up 220 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 28#3,910 | Up 1,050 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 21#4,812 | Down 1,700 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 17#5,457 | Up 612 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 167#1,216 | Down 144 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 16#5,704 | Down 1,507 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 75#2,008 | Up 722 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 47#2,718 | Down 327 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 11#7,370 | Down 1,271 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 86#1,837 | Up 509 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 50#2,611 | Up 828 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 12#6,826 | Down 1,962 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 17#5,479 | Down 880 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 35#3,340 | Up 621 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 14#6,292 | Down 3,121 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 27#4,005 | Down 1,294 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 30#3,704 | Down 799 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 33#3,466 | Down 1,613 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 23#4,483 | Up 1,381 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 33#3,489 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 16#5,683 | Up 4,199 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 15#6,100 | Up 1,887 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 36#3,264 | Up 1,195 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 31#3,630 | Up 1,017 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 50#2,616 | Up 539 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 50#2,607 | Up 2,103 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 14#6,231 | Up 4,805 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 14#6,220 | Up 941 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 24#4,332 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#6,631 | Down 508 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 13#6,690 | Down 1,715 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 26#4,055 | Up 2,595 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 12#6,918 | Up 2,063 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 10#7,766 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 15#6,068 | new | 2016 | |||
| 26#4,137 | new | 2025 | |||
| 12#7,058 | Up 3,188 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 13#6,492 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 19#5,058 | Up 2,029 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 22#4,596 | Up 8,130 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 13#6,569 | new | 2024 | |||
| 12#6,941 | new | 2025 | |||
| 10#7,715 | new | 2025 |
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Z names climbing fastest
Biggest Z 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.