Girl Names Ending In Z
Girls' names ending in Z, 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 0.08% in 2000
- Names in use
- 54
- 214 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 1909
- at 0.25% of names
- Rank among 26 last letters
- #16
- by 2025 share
How Z has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in Z, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 156#1,400 | Up 656 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 324#839 | Up 171 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 120#1,704 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 178#1,259 | Up 100 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 15#7,213 | Down 2,020 rank positions in five years | 1923 | |||
| 9#10,627 | Down 2,366 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 14#7,740 | Up 509 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 19#6,177 | Down 2,940 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 24#5,253 | Up 1,398 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 15#7,405 | Down 1,138 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 12#8,577 | Down 1,822 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 9#10,172 | Down 1,723 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 12#8,672 | Up 1,335 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 5#15,451 | Down 1,613 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 7#12,018 | Up 232 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 14#7,650 | Up 987 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 29#4,669 | Up 4,330 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 10#9,460 | Up 2,697 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 16#7,116 | Up 6,288 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 15#7,226 | Up 4,165 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 13#8,195 | Down 1,947 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 18#6,337 | Up 304 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 19#6,313 | Up 4,735 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,447 | Up 3,692 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 6#14,862 | new | 2007 | |||
| 8#11,018 | Up 1,249 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 6#14,422 | Down 2,604 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 5#15,074 | Up 170 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 25#5,140 | Up 4,657 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 6#14,307 | new | 2007 | |||
| 5#14,971 | Up 157 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 22#5,616 | Up 10,361 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 10#9,661 | Down 1,095 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 7#12,047 | Down 843 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 7#12,769 | Up 1,798 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 11#9,256 | Up 67 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 11#9,168 | Up 7,175 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 27#4,891 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#12,926 | new | 1946 | |||
| 7#12,776 | Down 1,932 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 11#9,026 | Up 6,773 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 9#10,618 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#15,993 | Up 238 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 6#14,871 | new | 2016 | |||
| 5#15,714 | new | 2022 | |||
| 6#13,344 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#15,106 | new | 2006 | |||
| 7#12,520 | new | 2025 | |||
| 6#13,320 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#15,258 | new | 2025 |
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Z names climbing fastest
Biggest Z 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.