Girl Names That Start With E
Girls' names beginning with E, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 10.0%
- vs 5.6% in 2000
- Names in use
- 996
- 2,846 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1893
- at 13.2% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #2
- by 2025 share
How E has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with E, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,760#17 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 5,451#34 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 12,754#3 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 9,123#8 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 5,831#29 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 7,649#12 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 2,154#134 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 2,277#119 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 595#499 | Down 27 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,007#305 | Up 214 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 2,236#123 | Up 110 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 4,836#42 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,176#24 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 8,191#10 | Up 43 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,367#223 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 4,251#49 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,370#115 | Steady | 2021 | |||
| 4,677#45 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 523#573 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 3,362#70 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 823#373 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 674#458 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 3,208#74 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,695#91 | Down 48 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 581#509 | Up 222 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,998#147 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,241#122 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,176#267 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 577#519 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 2,099#139 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 590#503 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,952#154 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,111#138 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,151#270 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,615#194 | Down 100 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 668#461 | Down 91 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 477#612 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,012#301 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 488#601 | Down 149 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 1,404#218 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 695#445 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,032#298 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 899#339 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 861#354 | Up 282 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 489#599 | Down 113 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 554#545 | Down 173 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 548#553 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 980#310 | Up 393 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 450#643 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,029#299 | Up 903 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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E names climbing fastest
Biggest E 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 letter
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 letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.