Baby Names Ending In R
Girls' and boys' names ending in R, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the ending itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls ending in R, 2025
- 3.3%
- vs 2.8% in 2000
- Girls' R names in use
- 303
- 1,088 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1976
- at 6.6% of names
- Boys ending in R, 2025
- 9.5%
- vs 8.6% in 2000
- Boys' R names in use
- 1,245
- 3,144 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 2022
- at 9.6% of names
How R has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in R, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every ending 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,748#68 | Down 21 rank positions in five years | 1984 | |||
| 501#586 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 7,230#30 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 1,381#252 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 1,633#220 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 1,954#187 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 177#1,264 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 576#520 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 7,649#12 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 1,664#211 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1990 | |||
| 772#403 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,277#119 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 14,939#3 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 2,761#130 | Down 62 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 2,211#166 | Down 88 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 1,620#223 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 6,024#45 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 3,232#108 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 617#486 | Down 95 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 6,792#16 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 3,477#102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 908#360 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 7,472#27 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 779#409 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,252#274 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 1,333#260 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 641#475 | Down 142 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 | |||
| 824#385 | Down 14 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,710#133 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,941#122 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,940#155 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 2,804#129 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 3,297#105 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,008#181 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 4,204#78 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,003#183 | Down 35 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 1,335#259 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 3,139#111 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 790#404 | Down 160 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 2,536#106 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,627#98 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,265#270 | Down 108 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 804#397 | Down 116 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 422#671 | Down 208 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 597#506 | Down 198 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,806#169 | Up 166 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,952#154 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,618#100 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 142#1,502 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 531#560 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,401#220 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 578#518 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 815#390 | Down 9 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,056#291 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 617#487 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 549#547 | Up 107 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 134#1,574 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 732#426 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,415#217 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 323#842 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 278#936 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 864#369 | Up 330 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 676#457 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 2,354#157 | Up 815 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 296#895 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 679#454 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,330#232 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 495#592 | Up 69 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 822#386 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 435#659 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,640#217 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 743#431 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 778#400 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 245#1,025 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 578#517 | Up 550 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 546#551 | Up 99 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 208#1,126 | Down 627 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 541#554 | Up 77 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 256#989 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 326#836 | Up 60 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 407#694 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 206#1,134 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 102#1,907 | Down 318 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 108#1,851 | Up 259 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 108#1,844 | Up 1,126 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 131#1,599 | Up 383 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 139#1,531 | Up 658 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 181#1,244 | Up 477 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 528#571 | Up 952 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 111#1,815 | Down 776 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 220#1,095 | Up 335 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 124#1,668 | Down 192 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 127#1,635 | Up 472 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 120#1,708 | Up 4,066 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 125#1,656 | Up 689 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 197#1,178 | Up 2,538 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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R names climbing fastest
Biggest R 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.
R names climbing fastest
Biggest R 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 ending
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 ending the stricter one leaves some endings empty. Ending shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because ending fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.