East
#6,209 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
East has been given to 85 babies in the U.S. since 2018. In 2025 it ranked #6,209 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named East, 2025
1 in 237,000
East over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — East over time
In 2025, East went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is East?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 122,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,209
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where East sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another East. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Easts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as East was born before 2022 — so the typical East is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 87.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 80
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 87.5% of all recorded uses (70).
Is East rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,171
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +526
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2022 (14)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.3% average annual change
Spellings of East
East is not the most common spelling — Earl is, with 47.0% against East's 0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
East by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to East
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for East
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.