Girl Names Ending In R
Girls' names ending in R, 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
- 3.3%
- vs 2.8% in 2000
- Names in use
- 303
- 1,088 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1976
- at 6.6% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #7
- by 2025 share
How R has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in R, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501#586 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 177#1,264 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 576#520 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 7,649#12 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 772#403 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,277#119 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 6,792#16 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,973#152 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 1,818#167 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,940#155 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,536#106 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 422#671 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,806#169 | Up 166 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,952#154 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,618#100 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 142#1,502 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 1,401#220 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,056#291 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 134#1,574 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 732#426 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,415#217 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 323#842 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 278#936 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 676#457 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 296#895 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 679#454 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,330#232 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 435#659 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 778#400 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 245#1,025 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 578#517 | Up 550 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 208#1,126 | Down 627 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 256#989 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 326#836 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 407#694 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 206#1,134 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 102#1,907 | Down 318 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 108#1,851 | Up 259 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 108#1,844 | Up 1,126 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 131#1,599 | Up 383 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 139#1,531 | Up 658 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 181#1,244 | Up 477 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 528#571 | Up 952 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 111#1,815 | Down 776 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 220#1,095 | Up 335 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 124#1,668 | Down 192 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 127#1,635 | Up 472 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 120#1,708 | Up 4,066 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 125#1,656 | Up 689 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 197#1,178 | Up 2,538 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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R names climbing fastest
Biggest R 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.