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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#2,058Imran Imran is a boy's name of Arabic origin, the name of the father of Mary in Islamic tradition and the title of the third chapter of the Quran.1,346 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,070Lucien Lucien is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucian.1,336 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,078Cedric Cedric was invented by Walter Scott in Ivanhoe in 1819, and it appears to be a misspelling — he took the Anglo-Saxon Cerdic and transposed the letters.1,329 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,086Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."1,322 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,120Howard Howard is a boy's name whose origin is genuinely contested — high guardian, brave heart and even a keeper of pigs have all been proposed.1,295 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,126Bobby Bobby is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."1,292 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,130Lyle Lyle is a boy's name from the Norman French for "the island," and the l at the front is the definite article rather than part of the word.1,286 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,134Brett Brett means a Breton — someone from Brittany, which is named for the Britons who fled there when the Anglo-Saxons arrived.1,281 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,143Casper Casper is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer."1,277 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,150Cory Cory has at least three unrelated origins — a Norse island name, an Irish surname and a Greek word for a maiden — and English cannot distinguish them.1,269 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.