Boy Names That Start With X
Boys' names beginning with X, 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
- 0.38%
- vs 0.22% in 2000
- Names in use
- 93
- 190 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2009
- at 0.47% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #24
- by 2025 share
How X has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with X, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,232#108 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 1,335#259 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 120#1,485 | Down 507 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 90#1,790 | Down 376 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 112#1,545 | Up 744 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 92#1,768 | Up 252 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 99#1,675 | Up 139 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 15#6,119 | Down 2,782 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 47#2,760 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 23#4,530 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 78#1,975 | Up 211 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 90#1,791 | Up 417 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 25#4,242 | Down 755 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 27#4,041 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 128#1,420 | Up 8,091 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 21#4,848 | Down 584 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 15#6,123 | Down 1,278 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 19#5,194 | Down 168 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 12#7,164 | Down 894 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 17#5,591 | Up 2,432 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 59#2,360 | Up 3,322 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 12#7,163 | Up 861 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 9#8,873 | Up 1,676 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 83#1,903 | Up 6,122 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 15#6,122 | Up 3,392 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 20#5,034 | Down 349 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 15#6,120 | Up 1,351 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 90#1,792 | new | 2024 | |||
| 24#4,384 | Up 2,632 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 13#6,781 | Down 182 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 26#4,133 | Up 3,336 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 14#6,427 | Up 1,045 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 24#4,383 | Up 2,632 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 25#4,241 | Up 4,452 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 12#7,162 | Up 860 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 22#4,696 | Up 7,248 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 36#3,308 | Up 8,638 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 24#4,385 | Up 9,572 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 11#7,650 | Up 1,044 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#5,841 | new | 2025 | |||
| 15#6,121 | Up 5,828 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 14#6,428 | Up 5,522 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 11#7,651 | new | 2021 | |||
| 10#8,218 | Up 1,294 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#7,649 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,874 | Up 5,080 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 20#5,033 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,872 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,875 | new | 2023 | |||
| 10#8,219 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest X 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.