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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#253Melody Melody is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "song" or "singing," from melodia.16,013 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#255Maeve Maeve is a girl's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Medb, usually translated as "she who intoxicates" or "intoxicating."15,893 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#259Nevaeh Nevaeh is a girl's name coined in the United States, and it is "heaven" spelled backwards.15,408 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#260Rylee Rylee is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "rye clearing."15,371 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#265Raelynn Raelynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, joining Rae to the -lynn suffix.15,215 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#267Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."15,140 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#271Josie Josie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Josephine, and so means "he will add," inherited from the Hebrew Yosef.15,019 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#275Samantha Samantha is a girl's name of uncertain origin, first recorded in America in the eighteenth century.14,737 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#278Hadley Hadley is a girl's name of English origin meaning "heather meadow," from the Old English hæth, heather or heathland, and leah, a clearing.14,539 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#281Julia Julia is a girl's name of Latin origin, the feminine of the Roman family name Julius.14,335 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#283Eliza Eliza is a girl's name that began as a short form of Elizabeth, and so means "God is my oath," from the Hebrew Elisheva.14,245 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#285Rose Rose is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the flower, from rosa.14,201 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#288Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.14,117 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#291Piper Piper is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "pipe player."14,056 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#297Juniper Juniper is a girl's name naming the evergreen shrub, from the Latin juniperus.13,822 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#301Brielle Brielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength."13,680 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#302Everleigh Everleigh is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed by respelling the English surname Everly.13,656 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#303Alaia Alaia is a girl's name of Basque origin meaning "joyful" or "happy," from the Basque alai.13,651 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#304Margaret Margaret is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl," from margarites.13,477 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#307Melanie Melanie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark."13,337 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#312Amara Amara is a girl's name that exists independently in several languages.13,171 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#315Mary Mary is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning has never been settled.12,990 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#322Elliana Elliana is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has answered me."12,831 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#323Cecilia Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caecilius, which derives from caecus, meaning blind.12,773 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#327Adalynn Adalynn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed from the Germanic element adal, meaning noble, with the -lynn suffix.12,500 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#328Sienna Sienna is a girl's name from the Italian city of Siena, and by way of it from the reddish-brown earth pigment mined nearby.12,482 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#330Georgia Georgia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer" or "worker of the earth," the feminine of George, from ge, earth, and ergon, work.12,370 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#332Esther Esther is a girl's name usually connected to the Persian word for star, and possibly to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.12,300 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#334Isabelle Isabelle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."12,160 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#341Catalina Catalina is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Spanish form of Catherine.11,909 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#343Emersyn Emersyn is a girl's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of the surname Emerson.11,888 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#344Valerie Valerie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.11,875 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#348Magnolia Magnolia is a girl's name naming the flowering tree, which was named after Pierre Magnol, a seventeenth-century French botanist.11,815 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#350Ashley Ashley is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree clearing."11,799 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#354Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.11,686 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#358Sloane Sloane is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "raider" or "warrior."11,585 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#360Juliette Juliette is a girl's name of Latin origin, the French diminutive of Julie and so of Julia, from the Roman family name Julius.11,487 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#363Freya Freya is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "lady" or "noble woman."11,354 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#365Ximena Ximena is a girl's name of Spanish origin whose meaning is unresolved.11,294 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#367Ember Ember is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word for a glowing coal, from æmyrge.11,235 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#368Valeria Valeria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy."11,194 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.