2020s Baby Names

19,335 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#1,055
Bristol
3,406 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,056
Amber Amber is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "ambergris."
3,402 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,058
Maliyah
3,400 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,061
Keira Keira rose twice, two years apart, and both markets moved together — American births went 433 in 2003 to 1,244 in 2004, then on to 3,022 by 2006, with England and Wales tracing the same two steps in the same years.
3,391 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,062
Kyla Kyla means a narrow strait if it comes from Kyle, and the Scottish word behind that names a specific kind of water — a channel between an island and the mainland, as at Kyle of Lochalsh.
3,386 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,065
Nalani Nalani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "the heavens".
3,381 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,069
Cecelia Cecelia means blind, and the saint who carries it became the patron of music through what looks like a misreading — a line in her acta about music playing at her wedding was later taken to mean she made it.
3,374 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,071
Anahi
3,369 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,074
Virginia Virginia is a girl's name from a Roman family name, and the American state was named before the name became common in America — both honoring Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
3,354 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,076
Florence Florence is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "blossoming" or "flourishing."
3,343 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,077
Oaklyn
3,342 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,078
Arleth Arleth is a girl's name used almost exclusively in Mexico and among Mexican-American families.
3,341 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,080
Calliope Calliope is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful-voiced".
3,336 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,081
Kinley
3,336 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,083
Katie Katie is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Katherine whose meaning has never been settled.
3,324 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,086
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
3,302 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,092
Melany Melany is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark".
3,277 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,096
Shelby Shelby is a girl's name from an English place name of Norse formation meaning a willow farm.
3,269 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,099
Kayleigh Kayleigh is far larger in England than its American figures suggest — 1,206 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US peak of 1,450, in a country with about a fifth of the population.
3,245 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,101
Amalia Amalia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "work" or "industrious," from the same root as Amelia and quite separate from the Latin for love.
3,245 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,102
Beatrice Beatrice is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness."
3,243 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,103
Ariya Ariya is a girl's name with several possible origins.
3,243 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,104
Sierra Sierra means a mountain range, and the Spanish word is literally a saw — ranges were named for the jagged sawtooth profile they cut against the sky.
3,241 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,108
Mariam Mariam is a girl's name of Hebrew origin and a spelling of Maryam, the Arabic and Aramaic form of Miriam.
3,230 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,113
Faye Faye is a girl's name of Old French origin meaning "fairy," from a word that traces back to the Fates of Roman religion.
3,201 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,115
Dayana
3,173 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,117
Briana Briana is a feminine of Brian, and it first appears in Spenser's Faerie Queene in 1590 — which makes it one of very few names whose earliest recorded use is a specific poem.
3,172 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,120
Emerie
3,162 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,124
Estella Estella means star, and Dickens chose the name deliberately — Great Expectations gives it to a girl raised to be beautiful and unreachable, which is what a star is.
3,139 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,128
Sasha Sasha is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," the Russian familiar form of Alexander.
3,133 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,129
Alejandra Alejandra means defender of men, and the Spanish form lost a consonant Greek never had trouble with — Alexandros became Alejandro because Spanish shifted the sh sound to the throaty j it uses today.
3,129 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,133
Alia
3,112 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,134
Yaretzi
3,103 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,137
Reyna
3,091 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,139
Ivanna
3,089 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,141
Lylah
3,077 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,142
Miranda Miranda was coined by Shakespeare for The Tempest around 1611, from the Latin for to be wondered at.
3,073 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,143
Braelynn
3,071 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,145
Zahra Zahra is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "radiant" or "blossoming."
3,062 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,148
Mckinley
3,060 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,154
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of recorded births are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
3,046 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,155
Maxine Maxine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest," a feminine form of Maximus.
3,046 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,156
Charleigh
3,044 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,158
Mara Mara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "bitter," and it is the name Naomi asks to be called after losing her family.
3,039 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,159
Yara Yara is a girl's name that arrives independently from Arabic, Brazilian Tupi and Persian, and the Tupi one is a water spirit who drowns men.
3,037 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,161
Adley
3,028 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,164
Capri
3,014 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#1,165
Louise Louise is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the French feminine form of Louis.
3,007 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.