Girl Names That Start With U
Girls' names beginning with U, 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
- 0.03%
- vs 0.03% in 2000
- Names in use
- 31
- 177 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1890
- at 0.05% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #26
- by 2025 share
How U has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with U, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29#4,746 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 49#3,245 | Down 535 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 73#2,456 | Down 759 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 55#3,025 | Down 526 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 5#17,084 | new | 1924 | |||
| 30#4,656 | Up 496 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 31#4,537 | Down 632 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 63#2,749 | Up 1,087 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 19#6,305 | Down 1,668 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 11#9,419 | Down 1,051 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 16#7,105 | Up 3,910 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 13#8,320 | Up 2,696 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 16#7,106 | Up 3,084 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 6#14,792 | Down 1,419 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 5#17,083 | new | 1981 | |||
| 11#9,418 | Down 5,923 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 8#11,847 | Up 1,525 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5#17,086 | new | 2019 | |||
| 7#13,085 | new | 2015 | |||
| 9#10,844 | Down 1,933 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 10#10,053 | Down 555 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 5#17,088 | Up 248 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 13#8,319 | Up 5,055 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 10#10,054 | new | 2023 | |||
| 13#8,318 | new | 2025 | |||
| 11#9,420 | new | 2025 | |||
| 9#10,845 | Up 6,490 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 9#10,843 | new | 2024 | |||
| 9#10,842 | new | 2025 | |||
| 5#17,087 | Down 2,128 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 5#17,085 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest U 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.