Girl Names Ending In K
Girls' names ending in K, 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
- 0.04%
- vs 0.03% in 2000
- Names in use
- 22
- 115 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1980
- at 0.05% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #20
- by 2025 share
How K has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in K, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32#4,372 | Down 816 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 137#1,544 | Down 46 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 6#13,882 | Down 6,169 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 32#4,415 | Down 1,610 rank positions in five years | 1950 | |||
| 27#4,943 | Down 1,776 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 60#2,847 | Down 229 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 35#4,138 | Up 3,307 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 115#1,764 | Up 2,650 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 17#6,740 | Up 1,522 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 5#16,132 | Down 3,313 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 18#6,372 | Down 1,018 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 7#12,686 | Down 3,944 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 26#5,052 | Up 1,181 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 12#8,439 | Down 2,750 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 9#10,359 | Down 578 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 9#10,419 | new | 2018 | |||
| 6#13,418 | Up 2,009 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 22#5,689 | new | 2025 | |||
| 10#9,974 | new | 2025 | |||
| 12#8,762 | new | 2025 | |||
| 10#9,952 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#16,066 | Up 204 rank positions in five years | 2020 |
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Biggest K 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.