Boy Names Starting With E

Ranks are each name's overall position among all 2025 boy names, so the gaps between rows are real — the names in between simply start with other letters. Want a random shortlist instead? Spin E boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.

How common E names are

Measured by births, E is the 6th initial of 26 for boys in 2025: its 56 names inside the top 1,000 add up to 7.4% of that list's births. The letter's #1 name, Elijah, holds overall rank #7 with 11,111 births; its 50th and last name, Eren, was recorded 270 times at #882.

That 7.4% is E's births inside the 2025 top 1,000 divided by the births of all 1,000 names — the convention the reading ranks and counts guide walks through — and the 56-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.

E names across the decades

Counting only names inside each snapshot's top 200, the E tally for boys runs 7 in 1955, 8 in 1965, 7 in 1975, 5 in 1985, 10 in 1995, 13 in 2005, 13 in 2015 — highest in 2005 and 2015 (13 each), lowest in 1985. The leading name was Edward (#25) in 1955 and Ethan (#6) in 2015. Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 18 E names, led by Elijah at #7. 3 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Edward, Eric, and Ethan. 2 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appear in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Edward and Eric.

E names held 2.4% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 6.5% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 9.0%. The first-letter trends guide sets E's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.

Faded and new

The snapshot lists hold 3 E names for boys that the 2025 top 50 does not: Eugene (1955–1975, best #81 in 1955), Ernest (1955–1975, best #90 in 1955), and Earl (1955, 1965, best #106 in 1955). The years in parentheses are the snapshot years whose top 200 included the name; 2 of them last charted in 1975.

In the other direction, 31 of the 50 names on the 2025 list are absent from every snapshot top 200: the first 12 by rank are Enzo (#72), Emiliano (#94), Eithan (#97), Elian (#147), Elliot (#151), Emilio (#154), Elliott (#160), Ellis (#243), Emerson (#254), Eliam (#313), Ezequiel (#348), and Elio (#388), and the remaining 19 follow in the table above.

Read both lists against the depths that produce them — 200 ranks per snapshot year, 50 names for E in 2025 with the last at #882: a name missing from a snapshot may sit below rank 200 that year, and a name missing from the 2025 list may sit below Eren; the committed files do not say.

Shape of the list

3 of the 50 names on the 2025 list run to eight letters or more (Emiliano, for one), 10 stop at four or fewer (Ezra, for one), and the remaining 37 sit in the five-to-seven-letter middle (Elijah, for one). The longest spellings on the 2025 list, at 8 letters, are Emiliano, Emmanuel, and Ezequiel; the shortest is Eli at 3.

Every one of the 50 names ranks inside the 2025 top 1,000 that the generator's latest era samples; they divide into 9 inside the top 100 (1 inside the top 10), 21 at ranks 101–500, and 20 at 501–1,000.

4 names on this list also appear on the 2025 girls' E list, each ranked separately per sex by the SSA: Elliott (#160 for boys, #599 for girls), Emerson (#254 for boys, #122 for girls), Eden (#544 for boys, #70 for girls), and Emery (#815 for boys, #74 for girls). Second letters on the 2025 list number 11; l leads them, opening 12 of the 50 names (El-), with Em- (9) next.

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Other letters

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Source: every name, rank, and count on this page comes from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national baby-names dataset (2025 data, from Social Security card applications). It is public-domain U.S. government data; names given fewer than 5 times in a year are excluded by the SSA, spelling variants are counted separately, and the data covers U.S. births only. Full caveats on the methodology page.