Girl Names Ending In U
Girls' names ending in U, 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
- 0.08%
- vs 0.03% in 2000
- Names in use
- 67
- 258 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1881
- at 0.46% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #17
- by 2025 share
How U has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in U, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65#2,674 | Up 853 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 28#4,834 | Up 760 rank positions in five years | 1942 | |||
| 50#3,194 | Down 387 rank positions in five years | 1886 | |||
| 7#12,648 | Up 284 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 262#974 | Up 508 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 16#7,020 | Up 2,295 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 42#3,593 | Up 598 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 80#2,283 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 56#2,968 | Up 832 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 59#2,863 | Up 325 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 42#3,577 | Up 1,070 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 35#4,145 | Up 373 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 9#10,812 | Up 6,408 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 21#5,877 | Down 1,533 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 35#4,111 | Up 1,444 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 19#6,157 | Down 40 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 6#13,862 | Down 4,686 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 15#7,347 | Up 438 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 9#10,420 | Up 5,637 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 18#6,363 | Down 1,994 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 10#10,101 | Down 561 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 7#12,118 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 21#5,750 | Down 404 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 11#9,248 | Down 3,826 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 44#3,492 | Up 4,247 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,764 | Up 1,796 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 14#7,616 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 22#5,630 | Up 1,422 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 7#12,060 | Up 1,576 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 23#5,501 | Up 2,742 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#7,996 | Up 1,749 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 12#8,773 | Up 3,170 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8#11,397 | Up 192 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 6#14,124 | Up 2,289 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 11#9,355 | Up 5,457 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 6#13,388 | new | 2004 | |||
| 11#9,414 | Up 775 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 10#10,049 | new | 2022 | |||
| 6#14,173 | new | 2011 | |||
| 6#13,994 | new | 2015 | |||
| 11#9,437 | Up 8,011 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8#11,185 | new | 2013 | |||
| 11#8,895 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,788 | Up 283 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 9#10,528 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,010 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#10,380 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,836 | new | 2022 | |||
| 6#13,963 | new | 2013 | |||
| 6#13,851 | new | 2025 |
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U names climbing fastest
Biggest U 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.