Boy Names Starting With P
The 2025 registration data puts Parker first among P names for boys, with 3,477 newborns. The table spans ranks #102 to #3,292, down to 36 births for Payson.
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| #102 | Parker | 3,477 |
| #187 | Peter | 1,954 |
| #235 | Patrick | 1,495 |
| #262 | Paul | 1,316 |
| #299 | Preston | 1,131 |
| #329 | Phoenix | 1,027 |
| #338 | Paxton | 988 |
| #430 | Pablo | 743 |
| #447 | Prince | 703 |
| #455 | Pedro | 684 |
| #505 | Pierce | 598 |
| #528 | Philip | 568 |
| #560 | Porter | 531 |
| #651 | Phillip | 425 |
| #653 | Princeton | 422 |
| #684 | Peyton | 398 |
| #995 | Palmer | 230 |
| #1,110 | Psalm | 194 |
| #1,210 | Perseus | 168 |
| #1,253 | Pierre | 159 |
| #1,279 | Percy | 154 |
| #1,373 | Perry | 135 |
| #1,456 | Pierson | 123 |
| #1,536 | Percival | 113 |
| #1,559 | Paulo | 110 |
| #1,569 | Payton | 109 |
| #1,616 | Phineas | 105 |
| #1,819 | Presley | 88 |
| #1,987 | Parks | 77 |
| #2,003 | Paolo | 76 |
| #2,051 | Pharaoh | 73 |
| #2,074 | Pax | 72 |
| #2,326 | Paris | 60 |
| #2,346 | Patricio | 59 |
| #2,347 | Price | 59 |
| #2,382 | Pete | 58 |
| #2,439 | Praise | 56 |
| #2,440 | Pranav | 56 |
| #2,528 | Pinchas | 53 |
| #2,593 | Parth | 51 |
| #2,594 | Phinehas | 51 |
| #2,706 | Penn | 48 |
| #2,707 | Pryce | 48 |
| #2,871 | Prynce | 44 |
| #2,972 | Prescott | 42 |
| #3,074 | Pietro | 40 |
| #3,225 | Pavel | 37 |
| #3,290 | Pace | 36 |
| #3,291 | Patton | 36 |
| #3,292 | Payson | 36 |
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 P boy names in the generator, or browse the full top 100 boy names.
How common P names are
1.2% of the births in the 2025 boys' top 1,000 went to a name starting with P — 17 names in all, giving the initial the 19th-largest share among the 26 initials. From Parker at overall #102 (3,477 births) down to Payson, the 50th name, at #3,292 (36), the first count on the table is 96.6 times the last.
That 1.2% is P'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 17-name count is taken at that same depth, not at the 50-name depth of the table above.
P names across the decades
| Year | List | Leading P name | P names in top 200 | Share of births |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1950s snapshot | Paul (#16) | 6 | 3.4% |
| 1965 | 1960s snapshot | Paul (#16) | 6 | 3.6% |
| 1975 | 1970s snapshot | Paul (#29) | 5 | 2.6% |
| 1985 | 1980s snapshot | Patrick (#37) | 6 | 2.5% |
| 1995 | 1990s snapshot | Patrick (#43) | 7 | 1.9% |
| 2005 | 2000s snapshot | Patrick (#108) | 6 | 1.4% |
| 2015 | 2010s snapshot | Parker (#72) | 4 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | latest year, cut to its top 200 | Parker (#102) | 2 | 0.60% |
In 1955, 6 boy names starting with P sat inside the top 200, led by Paul (#16); in 2015 the count was 4, led by Parker (#72). The largest of the 7 counts is 7 (1995) and the smallest is 4 (2015). Cut to the same top-200 depth, the 2025 list holds 2 P names, led by Parker at #102. 3 different names hold the lead across those snapshots: Paul, Patrick, and Parker. 2 of the 50 names on the 2025 table appear in every one of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: Patrick and Paul.
P names held 3.4% of the top-200 births for boys in 1955 and 1.1% in 2015; at the same depth in 2025 the figure is 0.60%. The first-letter trends guide sets P's share beside the other 25 initials for every snapshot year from 1955 to 2015, for both sexes.
Faded and new
Every P boy name that appears in any snapshot's top 200 is also on the 2025 list of 50 above, so no faded names exist for this letter at the committed depths.
Of the 50 names above, 40 appear in none of the 7 snapshot top-200 lists: the first 12 by rank are Phoenix (#329), Paxton (#338), Pablo (#430), Prince (#447), Pierce (#505), Porter (#560), Princeton (#653), Palmer (#995), Psalm (#1,110), Perseus (#1,210), Pierre (#1,253), and Percy (#1,279), and the remaining 28 follow in the table above.
Absence is relative to the committed depth: the snapshot files stop at rank 200 and the 2025 letter file stops at P's 50th name (#3,292), so a faded name may still be registered in 2025 below that point, and a newcomer may have been registered in a snapshot year below rank 200.
Shape of the list
By the generator's length classes, the 50 names on the 2025 table split into 5 short spellings of four letters or fewer (Paul, for one), 40 medium spellings of five to seven (Parker, for one), and 5 long spellings of eight or more (Princeton, for one). The longest spelling on the 2025 list is Princeton at 9 letters and the shortest is Pax at 3.
By popularity tier, the list holds 0 top-10 names, 0 more inside the top 100, 10 in the 101–500 band, and 7 in the 501–1,000 band; 33 sit past #1,000, outside the top-1,000 list the generator's 2025 era draws from.
Both sexes' 2025 P lists carry 11 of the same spellings, ranked once per sex: Parker (#102 for boys, #106 for girls), Phoenix (#329 for boys, #534 for girls), Porter (#560 for boys, #2,578 for girls), Peyton (#684 for boys, #199 for girls), Palmer (#995 for boys, #232 for girls), Psalm (#1,110 for boys, #2,252 for girls), Perry (#1,373 for boys, #2,233 for girls), Payton (#1,569 for boys, #440 for girls), Presley (#1,819 for boys, #225 for girls), Paris (#2,326 for boys, #592 for girls), and Praise (#2,439 for boys, #2,680 for girls). 18 of the 50 spellings on the 2025 list open Pa-, the letter's most common second letter, ahead of Pr- (10), and 7 different second letters appear across the list.
P boy names: questions answered from the data
How many boy names start with P in the 2025 top 1,000?
17 names, carrying 1.2% of the births in the 2025 boys' top 1,000; that share ranks P 19th of the 26 initials. This page's table goes deeper, to the letter's top 50, ending at overall rank #3,292.
What is the most-registered boy name starting with P in 2025?
Parker, with 3,477 births and overall rank #102. Next is Peter at #187 with 1,954 births.
How far down the 2025 rankings does the P list reach?
The 50th and last name, Payson, ranks #3,292 overall with 36 births. 33 of the 50 names rank past #1,000, outside the top-1,000 list; their ranks come from the full 2025 SSA file, which the per-letter data carries.
Did P boy names appear in the top 200 back in 1955?
Yes: 6 in 1955, led by Paul (#16). The count is 4 in 2015, led by Parker (#72), and the 7-snapshot high is 7 in 1995.
Other letters
Girl names for this letter: girl names starting with P.
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.