2020s Baby Names
19,176 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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#1,393Cheyenne Cheyenne is not the Cheyenne people's own name for themselves — it is a Sioux word meaning red speakers, applied from outside.2,370 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,400Arlette Arlette is nearly extinct in France — five births last year — while rising sharply in America, where births went from 238 in 2020 to 600 in 2025.2,349 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,431Louisa Louisa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," a Latinate form of Louise.2,285 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,437Liv Liv is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "protection," which modern Scandinavian speakers reinterpret as "life" because it now resembles that word.2,267 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,446Joan Joan is a girl's name, the medieval English feminine of John meaning God is gracious, and it was once as common as Mary.2,241 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,467Loretta Loretta comes from an Italian shrine, not from the laurel — Loreto is the town where the Holy House of Nazareth was said to have been carried by angels.2,197 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,479Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets we track.2,170 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,494Paula Paula is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.2,130 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.