Girl Names Ending In Y
Girls' names ending in Y, 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
- 11.3%
- vs 13.6% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,326
- 4,265 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1935
- at 20.1% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #3
- by 2025 share
How Y has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in Y, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,230#125 | Down 2 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 5,451#34 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 1,829#164 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 1,009#303 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 1,200#257 | Down 42 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 3,554#64 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 2,919#86 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 6,176#25 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,673#18 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,556#104 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 873#348 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,601#196 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 5,267#37 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,222#251 | Up 191 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,206#75 | Up 68 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 4,441#48 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 2,003#146 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,427#69 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,095#79 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,446#209 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 2,933#85 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 5,117#39 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,209#129 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,218#252 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 3,508#67 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 825#372 | Up 194 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 2,671#93 | Down 34 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 2,254#121 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,283#242 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 3,208#74 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,695#91 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 1,123#276 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 950#322 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,362#225 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 5,738#30 | Up 336 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 753#415 | Down 214 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 757#411 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,638#191 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 779#399 | Up 244 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 900#338 | Up 405 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,933#156 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 810#378 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,332#230 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 798#390 | Up 301 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 7,136#14 | Up 1,816 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 899#339 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,054#292 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,858#159 | Up 735 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 935#327 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 783#397 | Up 582 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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Y names climbing fastest
Biggest Y 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.