Baby Names That Start With N
Girls' and boys' names beginning with N, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with N, 2025
- 3.5%
- vs 2.5% in 2000
- Girls' N names in use
- 784
- 2,831 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 2022
- at 3.7% of names
- Boys with N, 2025
- 3.4%
- vs 3.9% in 2000
- Boys' N names in use
- 468
- 1,387 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1999
- at 4.0% of names
How N has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with N, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 265#967 | Down 70 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 3,115#112 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 1995 | |||
| 803#383 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 1985 | |||
| 4,975#63 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 20,358#2 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 2,736#89 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 2,565#140 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 169#1,200 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 1928 | |||
| 6,380#20 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 4,644#47 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 567#533 | Up 309 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 4,846#65 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 946#324 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 1980 | |||
| 288#851 | Down 100 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 2,053#177 | Up 25 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,828#165 | Down 82 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 202#1,148 | Down 203 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 2,028#144 | Down 59 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 300#825 | Down 155 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 4,657#46 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 82#1,914 | Down 342 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 635#478 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 124#1,447 | Down 26 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 531#565 | Down 97 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,507#202 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 118#1,498 | Down 455 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 1,191#262 | Down 110 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 1,315#236 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 331#822 | Down 269 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 403#702 | Down 207 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,151#271 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 375#719 | Down 115 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 341#755 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 509#583 | Up 187 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,357#255 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 442#632 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 743#429 | Down 52 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 2,066#174 | Up 144 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 145#1,481 | Down 569 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 617#487 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 292#907 | Up 32 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 157#1,395 | Up 111 rank positions in five years | 1987 | |||
| 1,046#325 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 590#504 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 1,348#226 | Up 239 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 469#605 | Down 60 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 113#1,535 | Up 205 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 144#1,337 | Down 88 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 435#659 | Up 228 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 187#1,216 | Down 139 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 754#414 | Up 179 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 173#1,294 | Up 735 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 156#1,405 | Up 197 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 206#1,061 | Down 410 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 162#1,365 | Down 374 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 336#813 | Down 59 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 317#856 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 935#327 | Up 333 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 150#1,440 | Down 420 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 468#624 | Up 250 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 261#977 | Down 166 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 147#1,319 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 93#1,748 | Up 137 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 330#825 | Up 146 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 202#1,071 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 86#1,848 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 356#762 | Up 839 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 225#1,078 | Up 215 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 249#1,006 | Down 437 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 102#1,651 | Down 412 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 108#1,581 | Up 229 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 149#1,308 | Down 550 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 204#1,066 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 193#1,196 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 155#1,273 | Up 324 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 139#1,531 | Up 658 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 97#1,694 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 164#1,230 | Down 109 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 225#1,006 | Up 1,248 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 130#1,407 | Down 518 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 147#1,465 | Down 416 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 96#1,706 | Up 423 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 111#1,550 | Up 246 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 125#1,441 | Down 147 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 179#1,255 | Up 492 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 263#905 | Up 938 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 296#897 | Up 1,516 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 156#1,404 | Up 1,008 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 106#1,606 | Up 432 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 255#926 | Up 2,188 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 371#723 | Up 2,901 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 142#1,508 | Up 2,909 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 110#1,558 | Up 551 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 138#1,535 | Up 6,747 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 143#1,495 | Up 4,765 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 243#1,031 | new | 2025 | |||
| 89#1,804 | Up 1,976 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,673 | Up 7,618 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 93#1,749 | Up 2,359 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 107#1,595 | new | 2025 |
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N names climbing fastest
Biggest N 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.
N names climbing fastest
Biggest N 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.