Baby Names That Start With B
Girls' and boys' names beginning with B, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with B, 2025
- 2.7%
- vs 4.2% in 2000
- Girls' B names in use
- 564
- 2,391 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1933
- at 9.3% of names
- Boys with B, 2025
- 4.9%
- vs 5.4% in 2000
- Boys' B names in use
- 582
- 1,868 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1985
- at 6.5% of names
How B has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with B, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 264#968 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 979#339 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 1972 | |||
| 212#1,113 | Up 62 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 9,762#11 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 1,326#261 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 1,005#336 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 558#536 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 246#1,018 | Up 249 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 281#928 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 785#396 | Up 210 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 794#403 | Down 130 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 1,372#222 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 972#313 | Down 77 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 583#508 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,080#316 | Down 107 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 1,545#229 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,300#118 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 919#357 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,446#209 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 409#691 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 362#752 | Down 150 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 431#661 | Down 47 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 1,071#321 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 385#724 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 1973 | |||
| 2,129#136 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,416#152 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,492#236 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 594#500 | Down 80 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 6,268#40 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,131#172 | Down 41 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 5,165#60 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,649#215 | Down 74 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 4,877#64 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 241#1,034 | Up 411 rank positions in five years | 1958 | |||
| 2,071#143 | Down 43 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 293#841 | Up 303 rank positions in five years | 1948 | |||
| 306#810 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 608#488 | Down 226 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,138#171 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 606#499 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 767#407 | Down 74 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 2,518#141 | Up 69 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,806#169 | Up 166 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,282#243 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 248#1,008 | Down 228 rank positions in five years | 1997 | |||
| 1,638#191 | Down 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 2,185#168 | Up 80 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,035#295 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 247#1,013 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 351#740 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 199#1,163 | Down 367 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 334#768 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 227#1,069 | Down 219 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 845#362 | Down 65 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 698#449 | Up 91 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 422#670 | Up 331 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,214#279 | Up 273 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,301#265 | Up 30 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 481#608 | Down 246 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 366#725 | Down 224 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 1,292#266 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 345#785 | Up 96 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 255#992 | Down 210 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 382#728 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 224#1,080 | Down 393 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 451#620 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 305#814 | Up 255 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 325#837 | Down 392 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 921#356 | Up 84 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 822#386 | Up 72 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 1,249#275 | Up 337 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 326#781 | Up 61 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,640#217 | Up 307 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 802#384 | Up 289 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 778#400 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 762#423 | Up 158 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 383#701 | Up 230 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 164#1,348 | Down 445 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,099#310 | Up 443 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 397#686 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 320#790 | Up 523 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 301#888 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 298#829 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 333#769 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 347#748 | Up 73 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 405#672 | Up 101 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 349#744 | Down 128 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 184#1,226 | Down 183 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 162#1,360 | Down 194 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 338#807 | Up 81 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 341#797 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 407#694 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 196#1,183 | Up 137 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 171#1,300 | Up 1,302 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 146#1,467 | Up 105 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 268#963 | Down 123 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 374#721 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 382#704 | Up 1,013 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 290#912 | Up 960 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 310#804 | Up 1,111 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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B names climbing fastest
Biggest B 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.
B names climbing fastest
Biggest B 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.