Girl Names Ending In J
Girls' names ending in J, 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
- <0.01%
- vs <0.01% in 2000
- Names in use
- 9
- 32 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2017
- at 0.01% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #25
- by 2025 share
How J has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in J, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18#6,514 | Down 1,533 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 15#7,172 | Down 2,406 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 23#5,541 | Up 1,648 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 22#5,684 | Down 397 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 8#11,711 | Down 2,872 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 5#17,002 | Up 251 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 11#9,388 | new | 2024 | |||
| 6#14,655 | new | 2014 | |||
| 5#16,395 | new | 2022 |
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Biggest J 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.