The biggest ending on this site is the one with no name
4,848 names fall outside every ending the filter names — more than any of them holds — and the commonest thing inside is an ending of its own.
The ending filter offers five: -a, -o, -y and -ie, -i, -s. Each has a page on this site. What it does not offer is the sixth option, which is everything else, and everything else is larger than any of the five: 4,848 names against 2,312 ending in -a and 1,874 in -y or -ie.
There is a sixth ending in there
Sort the leftover by its last letter and the largest group is not a scatter. It is -e: around eleven hundred names, more than a fifth of the bucket. Blue, Rose, Bruce, Jade, Sage, Clementine. A silent -e behaves nothing like a hard consonant at the end of a name — it lengthens the vowel before it and leaves the name open — which is the property the other five endings were named for.
So the filter's five named endings are five, and the sixth is sitting inside the leftover unnamed. That is not a data error; the classification simply stopped where somebody stopped. It is worth knowing before you read the bucket as a single thing.
The rest of it is genuinely mixed
Past -e the last letters run n, r, t, l, u, h, k — and those do not behave alike either. 1,389 of the bucket classifies strong-sounding and 601 soft, which is the widest spread of any ending group here, because ending in a consonant says nothing about which consonant.
It leans male — 2,033 measure male against 919 female — though not the hardest: -o and -s both lean further. A closed ending reads male in this catalogue wherever it appears, and this is where most of the closed endings live.
Length is the part that is uniform
2,644 of it is two syllables and 1,606 a single one, with only 598 running to three or more. Consonant endings are short endings: there is no equivalent of the three-syllable -a name that gets clipped in the second week.
They average 63 registrations each, in the middle of the endings — under -y and -ie at 129, above -a at 53. Nothing about ending in a consonant costs or earns use.
What to do with this
If a closed ending is what you want, the ending filter will get you there and the sound filter will sort the result: strong for names that arrive hard, soft for the ones that do not. If it was the open -e you were after, no filter reaches it directly — read the list for the silent ones, or filter for soft-sounding and accept the overlap.
And read the bucket as what it is. Four of the five named endings are one letter; the sixth is a rule about what a name is not. Those are different kinds of thing, and only one of them tells you how the name sounds.
What does the ending filter mean by other?
Anything not ending in -a, -o, -y, -ie, -i or -s — mostly consonants, and it holds 4,848 names, more than any of the named endings.
Why is -e not one of the endings?
It is not one this site names, though on the evidence it should be: around eleven hundred of the leftover names end in a silent -e, which is the largest group inside the bucket and behaves like an open ending rather than a closed one.
Are consonant endings male?
They lean that way — 2,033 measure male against 919 female — though -o and -s lean further still. A closed ending reads male throughout this catalogue.
Do consonant endings carry outdoors?
It depends which consonant, which is the problem with reading the bucket as one thing. 1,389 classify strong-sounding and 601 soft — sort by sound rather than by ending.