2020s Baby Names
14,781 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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#1,567Alvin Alvin means elf-friend, from an Old English name that treats elves as beings whose favor was worth having.2,003 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,574Hugh Hugh is a boy's name from a Germanic word for mind or spirit, brought to Britain by the Normans.1,995 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,606Douglas Douglas is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic for dark water, originally a river and then a powerful border family.1,929 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,612Rudy Rudy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous wolf."1,920 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,634Ben Ben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son," used both as a short form of Benjamin and as a name in its own right.1,887 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,641Jimmy Jimmy is a boy's name, the pet form of James, meaning supplanter.1,876 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,652Ricky Ricky is a boy's name, the pet form of Richard or Ricardo, meaning strong ruler.1,856 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,666Stanley Stanley is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "stony clearing."1,832 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,675Eddie Eddie is a boy's name, the pet form of Edward or Edwin, meaning wealth.1,821 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
What made a 2020s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 2020 and 2025, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "2020s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
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.