Boy Names That Start With S
Boys' names beginning with S, 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
- 4.8%
- vs 4.5% in 2000
- Names in use
- 894
- 2,868 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1971
- at 7.2% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #10
- by 2025 share
How S has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with S, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,261#271 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 829#383 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 8,334#18 | Up 7 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 561#534 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 1971 | |||
| 616#489 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 399#682 | Down 230 rank positions in five years | 1971 | |||
| 278#863 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 8,605#16 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 439#636 | Down 129 rank positions in five years | 1973 | |||
| 505#581 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 428#647 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 908#360 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 7,554#26 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 714#441 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 4,639#71 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,529#230 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,941#122 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 249#945 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 341#756 | Down 55 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 535#557 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 325#783 | Down 215 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 767#422 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 944#346 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,137#298 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 219#1,023 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 337#766 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 684#456 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,083#314 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,662#136 | Up 351 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 934#353 | Up 92 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 639#477 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 262#909 | Up 3,763 rank positions in five years | 1971 | |||
| 434#643 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 665#464 | Up 45 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 445#631 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,220#278 | Up 337 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 717#440 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 285#855 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 1,408#246 | Up 349 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 217#1,027 | Up 125 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 1,018#332 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,286#267 | Up 304 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 258#916 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 256#923 | Up 106 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 241#963 | Up 58 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 400#679 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 268#892 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 215#1,032 | Up 417 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 390#697 | Up 419 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 251#939 | Up 1,196 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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S names climbing fastest
Biggest S 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.