Girl Names That Start With S
Girls' names beginning with S, 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
- 7.6%
- vs 8.7% in 2000
- Names in use
- 1,310
- 6,498 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1946
- at 10.5% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #4
- by 2025 share
How S has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with S, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,710#90 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1982 | |||
| 543#557 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 1,973#151 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 12,561#5 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,568#198 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1981 | |||
| 1,017#300 | Up 202 rank positions in five years | 1937 | |||
| 4,136#52 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 2,141#135 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 8,252#9 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 873#348 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 4,168#50 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 444#649 | Down 148 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 956#321 | Up 67 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 3,984#55 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 5,644#32 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 476#616 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 1,973#152 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 1,818#167 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,209#129 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 1,170#268 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 942#325 | Up 98 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,659#94 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 414#684 | Down 79 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 1,853#160 | Up 63 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 422#671 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,077#141 | Up 40 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 569#532 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 733#425 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 957#320 | Up 31 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,056#291 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,496#203 | Up 202 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 581#510 | Down 63 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,416#216 | Up 209 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,098#281 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,415#217 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 798#390 | Up 301 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,697#181 | Up 142 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 640#480 | Up 118 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 479#610 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 469#623 | Up 182 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 387#723 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,096#282 | Up 493 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,228#126 | Up 1,205 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 468#625 | Up 192 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 711#436 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 358#758 | Up 441 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 389#722 | Up 504 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 489#600 | Up 675 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 518#575 | Up 185 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 599#495 | Up 1,145 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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S names climbing fastest
Biggest S 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.