Girl Names Ending In A
Girls' names ending in A, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the ending itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 38.0%
- vs 37.3% in 2000
- Names in use
- 5,842
- 29,118 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2006
- at 39.7% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #1
- by 2025 share
How A has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in A, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every ending 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,521#107 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 12,754#3 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 13,544#1 | Steady | 2014 | |||
| 2,887#87 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 4,027#54 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,172#131 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 12,561#5 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 10,666#7 | Steady | 2010 | |||
| 5,831#29 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 7,732#11 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 11,078#6 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 3,601#63 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 12,699#4 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 4,136#52 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 6,380#20 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,692#92 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 8,252#9 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,619#99 | Up 78 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,428#113 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,545#105 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 5,338#36 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 6,591#19 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 3,712#62 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 2,219#128 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 2,506#108 | Up 39 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5,634#33 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 4,836#42 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,130#26 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 4,796#43 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 8,191#10 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,118#78 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,370#115 | Steady | 2021 | |||
| 4,677#45 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 5,354#35 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,012#83 | Up 77 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,012#28 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 4,657#46 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,477#109 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,089#80 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,204#130 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,659#94 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,149#77 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,456#111 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,630#98 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,168#132 | Up 151 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,233#124 | Up 52 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,318#117 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2024 |
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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 ending
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 ending the stricter one leaves some endings empty. Ending shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because ending fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.