Boy Names That Start With A
Boys' names beginning with A, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 10.4%
- vs 9.5% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,661
- 4,284 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2006
- at 11.0% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #2
- by 2025 share
How A has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with A, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter 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 | |||
| 4,497#73 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 7,230#30 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 4,041#80 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 3,501#101 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 3,103#113 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 1,915#191 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 1955 | |||
| 1,515#232 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 4,464#74 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 4,757#67 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 2,058#176 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 5,046#62 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 1,842#195 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 868#368 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 1,043#326 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,664#209 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,744#200 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,343#257 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,801#197 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 1,124#304 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 4,140#79 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 3,958#81 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,156#291 | Down 80 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,525#231 | Down 50 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,129#301 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,297#105 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,116#306 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 898#363 | Down 57 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,921#84 | Up 56 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,000#185 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 625#482 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 3,627#98 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,239#164 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 4,413#75 | Up 113 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,443#148 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 783#407 | Up 92 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,462#241 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 622#483 | Up 23 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 808#393 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,208#281 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 609#495 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 651#469 | Down 22 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 615#490 | Up 70 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 708#445 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 664#465 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,975#186 | Up 309 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,157#290 | Up 306 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 645#472 | Up 206 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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A names climbing fastest
Biggest A 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 letter
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 letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.