2020s Baby Names
14,967 names were given to children in the United States between 2020 and 2025, ranked below by how many.
A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.
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#971Benson Benson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Ben", where Ben is a medieval short form of Benedict rather than of Benjamin.3,845 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#973Moshe Moshe is a boy's name of Hebrew origin, the original form of Moses.3,836 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#975Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."3,828 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#984Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.3,795 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#997Ford Ford is a boy's name from an English surname for someone living by a river crossing, from the Old English word ford.3,716 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#999Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.3,713 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,000Zaire Zaire is a name used mostly for boys, from the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in use from 1971 to 1997.3,704 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,010Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.3,643 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,015Soren Soren is a boy's name of Danish origin, from the Latin Severinus meaning "stern" or "serious".3,610 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,019Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and it is rising — 511th in the United States, 1,186th in Canada, 1,324th in France and 1,714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name birth records carry from 1880.3,583 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,027Seth Seth is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "appointed" or "placed," given to Adam and Eve's third son after Cain killed Abel.3,548 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,033Pierce Pierce is a boy's name meaning "rock," from the medieval Piers, the Norman form of Peter.3,519 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,034Marcelo Marcelo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars".3,515 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,036Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.3,514 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,038Valentino Valentino is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy".3,509 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,043Makai Makai is a boy's name with more than one reading. In Hawaiian it means "toward the sea," and it's a word for direction.3,471 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,045Yusuf Yusuf is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will increase."3,467 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,059Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish and Portuguese boy's name meaning "famous ruler."3,399 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,066Kaysen Kaysen is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Kayson or Cason.3,379 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,068Leandro Leandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion-man," borne by a lover who drowned swimming a strait to reach her.3,376 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,075Lucian Lucian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".3,351 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,085Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.3,319 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
What Made a 2020s Name
Children in the United States were registered with it between 2020 and 2025. A name's position here is how many of them were.
Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade
A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.
Where to Go Next
Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.