England & Wales / 1996–2025 · A Data Story

Different Names. The Same Last Letter.

Olivia, Amelia, Isla, Freya. They are different names, but their endings have something in common. Look past the top-ten list and a larger pattern appears in England and Wales.

Office For National Statistics · Birth Registration Records · Published September 9, 2026

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01 / How Girls’ Names EndDrag To Explore

43.2%

of girls in the published name records had a name ending in A.

Year Of Birth2025

The Last Letter Of A Girl’s Name

Girls in the published England-and-Wales name records · Percent by final letter

Final Written Character · All Names Counted

Tap or focus a letter to see the leading names behind it. The bars count girls, not the number of different name spellings.

253,281 girls across 7,617 published names · England and Wales · Names recorded for fewer than three girls are not published.

* includes any ending outside A–Z. Names recorded for only one or two girls are withheld by ONS and are outside this denominator. Zero means none in the published records, not none among all births. The older archive includes mothers living abroad; recent files exclude them. See the method before treating this as a precise population trend.

02 / What Stands Out

A Takes A Larger Share.

Names ending in A accounted for 29.5% of girls in the published 1996 records and 43.2% in 2025. This is a pattern across thousands of names, not just whichever name finished first.

Spelling Is Not Sound.

This chart follows the final written character. Hannah counts under H, not A. Different spellings remain separate in the source, and hyphenated names keep their final character. It is not a count of pronunciations, languages or backgrounds.

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Girls In Published Name Records, By Final Letter · 2025

A	43.2%	109,461
B	0.3%	771
C	0%	31
D	0.3%	780
E	22.9%	57,997
F	0.1%	175
G	0%	56
H	6.1%	15,560
I	2.7%	6,885
J	0%	85
K	0.1%	221
L	2.4%	6,134
M	0.8%	2,034
N	5%	12,746
O	0.4%	1,125
P	0%	80
Q	0%	15
R	2.6%	6,572
S	0.9%	2,266
T	2.3%	5,841
U	0.2%	385
V	0%	18
W	0.7%	1,744
X	0.2%	412
Y	8.5%	21,614
Z	0.1%	273
Other	0%	0

Sources & Method

We use the Girls worksheet of the ONS 1996–2016 archive and Table 6 of each annual girls’ workbook for 2017–2025. Each published name count contributes to its final character, after trimming surrounding whitespace and converting that character to uppercase. Non-A–Z endings remain in Other; none are discarded.

The denominator is the sum of published girls’ name counts in each year, not all girls born that year and not the number of unique names. ONS suppresses counts below three and excludes names not stated. We cannot recover the missing names’ endings and do not present the result as an exact share of all births.

The older combined archive includes births to mothers living outside England and Wales. Recent Table 6 notes exclude those births. That coverage difference can affect comparisons, so this is a descriptive pattern in the published files rather than a precisely harmonized population trend.

Leading names in each letter’s detail are ranked by that year’s published counts, with alphabetical tie-breaking. Source files are preserved separately and fingerprinted in the download. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Source files retrieved 2026-09-09. The download includes source links, file fingerprints and every chart value. Analysis and visualization: NameIt.