Girl Names That Start With X
Girls' names beginning with X, 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
- 0.34%
- vs 0.06% in 2000
- Names in use
- 117
- 254 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 2025
- at 0.34% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #24
- by 2025 share
How X has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with X, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,686#183 | Down 53 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 665#463 | Up 146 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 218#1,101 | Up 602 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 177#1,270 | Down 141 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 183#1,234 | Up 1,022 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,931 | Up 82 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 356#763 | Up 648 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 53#3,097 | Up 351 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 209#1,124 | Up 1,556 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 45#3,454 | Down 175 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 25#5,228 | Down 1,068 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 27#4,977 | Up 325 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 12#8,828 | Up 3,258 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 68#2,581 | Up 381 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 24#5,392 | Up 1,223 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 42#3,640 | Up 2,428 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 67#2,605 | Up 2,035 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 31#4,539 | Up 764 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 40#3,772 | Up 1,885 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 26#5,091 | Up 4,420 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 27#4,978 | Up 3,946 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 12#8,829 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 25#5,229 | Up 2,316 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 41#3,707 | Up 293 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 15#7,466 | Up 4,619 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 197#1,182 | Up 7,737 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 27#4,979 | Down 229 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 26#5,090 | Up 3,832 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 21#5,905 | Up 162 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 20#6,099 | Up 2,821 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 34#4,262 | Up 730 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 20#6,098 | new | 2025 | |||
| 13#8,332 | Down 2,674 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 15#7,467 | Up 9,927 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 18#6,531 | Up 10,859 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 25#5,230 | Up 8,168 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 40#3,771 | new | 2025 | |||
| 95#2,015 | new | 2025 | |||
| 13#8,333 | Up 5,068 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 40#3,773 | new | 2024 | |||
| 16#7,111 | new | 2025 | |||
| 20#6,097 | new | 2025 | |||
| 21#5,904 | new | 2025 | |||
| 35#4,164 | new | 2025 | |||
| 35#4,165 | new | 2025 | |||
| 17#6,819 | new | 2025 | |||
| 18#6,532 | new | 2025 | |||
| 16#7,113 | new | 2025 | |||
| 12#8,827 | new | 2025 | |||
| 16#7,112 | new | 2025 |
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X names climbing fastest
Biggest X 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.