Boy Names That Start With E
Boys' names beginning with E, 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
- 6.9%
- vs 4.1% in 2000
- Names in use
- 631
- 1,764 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1896
- at 7.3% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #6
- by 2025 share
How E has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with E, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,591#224 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 1,256#273 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 7,852#24 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 11,111#7 | Down 3 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,412#153 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 798#398 | Down 54 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 280#861 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 549#546 | Down 124 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 617#486 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 3,418#104 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 4,287#77 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8,837#13 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 778#410 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 8,126#20 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,035#179 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 5,091#61 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 879#366 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 3,198#110 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,950#121 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,287#160 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 517#571 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,417#151 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 513#574 | Down 164 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 2,397#154 | Up 75 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,417#243 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 272#878 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 3,701#94 | Up 81 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 673#461 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 4,556#72 | Up 102 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,371#254 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 943#348 | Up 14 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 305#815 | Down 76 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 322#789 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 2,448#147 | Up 208 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 333#770 | Down 260 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 348#746 | Up 39 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 276#870 | Down 271 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 547#550 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 551#544 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,636#97 | Up 774 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 546#551 | Up 99 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 818#388 | Up 690 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 503#586 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,085#313 | Up 870 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 389#698 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 315#796 | Up 190 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 270#882 | Up 1,418 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 558#537 | Up 1,196 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 284#857 | Up 1,513 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 465#610 | Up 2,201 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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E names climbing fastest
Biggest E 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.