Girl Names Ending In -Son
Girls' names ending in -son, 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
- 1.1%
- vs 1.9% in 2000
- Names in use
- 58
- 130 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2008
- at 2.4% of names
- Most popular now
- Madison
- of 58 in use
How -son has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in -son, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,945#40 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 2,564#103 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 2,971#84 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 644#476 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 203#1,139 | Down 497 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 2,241#122 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 157#1,388 | Down 325 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 703#439 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 154#1,413 | Down 616 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 79#2,315 | Down 642 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 197#1,174 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 580#511 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 228#1,067 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 52#3,117 | Down 1,150 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 13#7,896 | Down 3,887 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 51#3,153 | Down 581 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 13#7,893 | Down 1,568 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 62#2,751 | Up 473 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 958#319 | Up 2,490 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 66#2,623 | Down 642 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 19#6,253 | Down 2,367 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 42#3,611 | Down 567 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 12#8,570 | Down 4,083 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 83#2,223 | Down 336 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 181#1,243 | Up 736 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 41#3,647 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 81#2,260 | Up 138 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 28#4,792 | Down 605 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 21#5,802 | Down 2,445 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 41#3,687 | Up 724 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 47#3,334 | Up 490 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 24#5,335 | Up 891 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 23#5,498 | Up 272 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 18#6,402 | Down 3,047 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 15#7,269 | Down 1,099 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 54#3,053 | Up 2,526 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 15#7,230 | Up 436 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 8#11,283 | Down 712 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 12#8,661 | Down 2,433 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 9#10,496 | Down 590 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 8#11,458 | Up 2,886 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 37#3,967 | Up 10,925 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 16#6,838 | new | 2007 | |||
| 15#7,408 | Up 7,292 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 10#9,721 | Up 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 10#9,810 | Up 6,663 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 21#5,839 | new | 2025 | |||
| 8#11,705 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 13#7,956 | new | 2025 | |||
| 13#8,152 | new | 2025 |
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-son names climbing fastest
Biggest -son 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. Names ending in -son also count toward names ending in N — a suffix is a slice of its last letter, not a separate universe. 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.