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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#496Crew Crew is a boy's name taken from the English word for a group working together, which comes through French from a Latin verb meaning to grow.7,998 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#497Preston Preston means the priest's settlement — land held by the church rather than by a lord, which is why so many English places carry the name.7,987 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#498Holden Holden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "deep valley".7,983 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#501Paxton Paxton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Pæcc's farmstead".7,958 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#506Ronan Ronan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little seal," from the Irish rón.7,870 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#507Kenneth Kenneth is a boy's name anglicizing two separate Gaelic names, one meaning born of fire and one meaning handsome.7,827 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#508Zayn Zayn is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "beauty" or "grace."7,823 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#514Walter Walter is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning ruler of the army.7,725 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#517Aziel Aziel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," from elements meaning strength and God.7,653 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#530Cash Cash is a boy's name of English origin meaning a maker of boxes or cases.7,485 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#531Muhammad Muhammad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy" or "the praised one."7,462 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#532Tobias Tobias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is good."7,443 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#533Jax Jax is a boy's name of modern coinage, a respelling of Jack or Jackson.7,437 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#537Atticus Atticus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Attica", the region of Greece around Athens.7,379 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#544Bodhi Bodhi is a boy's name of Sanskrit origin meaning "awakening" or "enlightenment."7,317 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#547Hendrix Hendrix is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "son of Hendrik", the Dutch form of Henry.7,278 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#548Eithan Eithan is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "firm" or "enduring," a variant spelling of Ethan closer to the Hebrew Eitan.7,255 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#550Maximiliano Maximiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Maximilian.7,207 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#554Ismael Ismael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will hear," the son of Abraham and Hagar and a prophet in Islam.7,176 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#555Jorge Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of George, meaning farmer.7,165 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#556Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."7,158 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#557Callan Callan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle" or "rock."7,144 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#561Malcolm Malcolm means devotee of Columba, and it is one of only two rising names in this group — 168th in Canada, 272nd in the United States, 362nd in Scotland, 539th in Ireland, 1333rd in England and Wales and 1629th in France, and climbing in our data rather than falling.7,101 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#567Aidan Aidan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fire," from Aodh, the name of a fire god.7,027 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#574Bryan Bryan is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed.6,939 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#578Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.6,907 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#581Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.6,863 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#588Cody Cody is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicising Ó Cuidighthigh, meaning "descendant of the helpful one."6,814 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#594Brian Brian is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed, and neither is secure.6,773 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#595Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.6,753 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#599Cyrus Cyrus is a boy's name of Persian origin whose meaning is not settled.6,680 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#601Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.6,645 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#602Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".6,643 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#603Colin Colin has two entirely separate origins — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean.6,638 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#615Otto Otto is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."6,527 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.