Boy Names That Start With C
Boys' names beginning with C, 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
- 7.1%
- vs 9.0% in 2000
- Names in use
- 677
- 2,421 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1883
- at 9.3% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #5
- by 2025 share
How C has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with C, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,898#48 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 4,748#68 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 3,641#96 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 5,217#58 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 4,348#76 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,418#150 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,076#318 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 2,211#166 | Down 88 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,710#132 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 6,024#45 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,460#145 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 1919 | |||
| 1,904#192 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 2,003#182 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 3,420#103 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,130#300 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 950#343 | Down 56 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,883#124 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 7,472#27 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,072#320 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 613#493 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 824#385 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 1,742#201 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 906#362 | Down 30 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 1,722#205 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 711#442 | Down 163 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 837#377 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 774#414 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 586#512 | Down 165 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 770#417 | Up 134 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,392#248 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,025#331 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,284#268 | Up 101 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,188#285 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 1,181#287 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,590#225 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,995#118 | Up 218 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,352#256 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,917#190 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,354#157 | Up 815 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,099#311 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 579#516 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 965#341 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 554#543 | Up 394 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,566#227 | Up 579 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 614#491 | Up 269 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 595#507 | Up 450 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 633#479 | Up 557 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 540#555 | Up 919 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 523#566 | Up 1,350 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 571#523 | Up 2,621 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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C names climbing fastest
Biggest C 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.