Girl Names Ending In L
Girls' names ending in L, 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
- 2.0%
- vs 3.1% in 2000
- Names in use
- 387
- 2,228 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1896
- at 5.2% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #8
- by 2025 share
How L has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in L, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82#2,242 | Down 331 rank positions in five years | 1946 | |||
| 1,225#250 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 4,941#41 | Down 29 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 202#1,145 | Down 288 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 6,318#21 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 557#542 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 350#777 | Steady | 1918 | |||
| 1,522#201 | Up 227 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 1,746#177 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 551#546 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 851#356 | Down 156 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 88#2,135 | Down 374 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 740#423 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 932#328 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 209#1,123 | Down 191 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 372#734 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 141#1,514 | Down 502 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 423#667 | Up 311 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 128#1,628 | Up 645 rank positions in five years | 1917 | |||
| 125#1,662 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 850#359 | Up 209 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 152#1,426 | Up 481 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 170#1,311 | Down 596 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 157#1,395 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 87#2,144 | Down 474 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 91#2,065 | Down 850 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 382#728 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 100#1,931 | Down 314 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 201#1,150 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 298#893 | Up 1,078 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 474#617 | Up 573 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,951 | Down 732 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 218#1,101 | Up 602 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 358#758 | Up 441 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 157#1,393 | Up 243 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 169#1,319 | Up 491 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 127#1,642 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 125#1,663 | Down 889 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 181#1,241 | Down 121 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 389#722 | Up 504 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 147#1,466 | Up 523 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 79#2,307 | Down 311 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 108#1,845 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 99#1,952 | Up 1,170 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 88#2,122 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 158#1,382 | Up 3,505 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 93#2,038 | Up 985 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 142#1,500 | Up 2,959 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 78#2,330 | Up 4,942 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 140#1,518 | new | 2025 |
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L names climbing fastest
Biggest L 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.