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The alphabet

Baby names,
A to Z

117,820 names on record · 26 letters · 2,003 in today's top 1000

Every name in 146 years of official US birth records, filed under its first letter. Each tile carries the letter’s counts and its highest-ranked girl and boy name; each letter opens its own page — every spelling ranked by today’s popularity, with the rare tail on plain numbered pages behind it.

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What the alphabet measures

Largest letter
A
12,727 names on record
Smallest letter
U
352 names on record
Most in today's top 1000
A
280 of its names rank today
Most girl-leaning
L
71% of its 6,729 names are girls' names
Most boy-leaning
Q
51% of its 599 names are boys' names
Closest split
W
50% girls · 50% boys

Counted from 146 years of official US birth records — 117,820 recorded spellings in all. “Leaning” is the share of a letter’s recorded names given to girls or to boys; letters with fewer than 200 names sit out that comparison.

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Every letter, A to Z

Counts are recorded spellings — a name given to both girls and boys counts once for each. Ranks are each name’s national standing in 2025, the latest year on record. The rare pages list a letter’s names outside the current top 1000, 500 to a page — 49 pages across the alphabet.

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