Girl Names Ending In W
Girls' names ending in W, 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
- 0.49%
- vs 0.05% in 2000
- Names in use
- 21
- 39 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2023
- at 0.49% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #12
- by 2025 share
How W has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in W, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,763#44 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 981#309 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 1,078#286 | Up 190 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 399#706 | Up 236 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 5#16,430 | Down 3,425 rank positions in five years | 1983 | |||
| 6#13,332 | Down 5,321 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 199#1,167 | Up 861 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 36#4,055 | Down 783 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 35#4,156 | Down 1,199 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 199#1,169 | Up 1,889 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 36#3,987 | Down 1,949 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 17#6,766 | Down 1,317 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 26#5,089 | Up 1,213 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 6#14,420 | new | 2017 | |||
| 9#10,195 | Down 2,597 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 5#17,177 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 1976 | |||
| 10#9,591 | Down 1,077 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 6#14,678 | new | 2014 | |||
| 5#16,467 | Down 1,939 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 5#17,129 | new | 2018 | |||
| 7#12,361 | new | 2023 |
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W names climbing fastest
Biggest W 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.