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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Rankings for

#587
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
6,818 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#589
Sydney Sydney is a name from a French place name — Saint-Denis, contracted by English speakers — and the Australian city was named after a man who bore it.
6,809 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#591
Adelaide Adelaide means noble in kind, and it is one of only three names in this group our data marks as rising — 230th in Canada, 289th in the United States, 344th in England and Wales, 416th in France and 618th in Scotland, and setting its English peak in the most recent year we hold.
6,783 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#598
Gia Gia is a girl's name, the Italian short form of Gianna, meaning God is gracious.
6,689 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#600
Evie Evie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life."
6,678 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#604
Brooke Brooke is a girl's name from the English word for a small stream.
6,633 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#605
Mabel Mabel is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lovable."
6,614 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#606
Octavia Octavia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "eighth".
6,591 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#609
Journey Journey is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Old French journee — which meant a day's work or a day's travel.
6,570 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#610
Ophelia Ophelia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "help" or "benefit."
6,560 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#611
Talia Talia is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "dew from God."
6,556 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#613
Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.
6,533 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#616
Cataleya Cataleya is a girl's name taken from the cattleya orchid, and its use is traceable to a single film.
6,520 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#617
Juliet Juliet is thirteen in the play, and Shakespeare says so twice — the Nurse gives her age precisely, which most productions quietly ignore and most readers never notice.
6,513 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#620
Alayna Alayna is a girl's name, a modern respelling that sits between several older names.
6,455 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#624
Kayla Kayla is a girl's name with no established etymology, an American coinage of the 1950s that a soap opera turned into a top-name.
6,415 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#625
Adelyn Adelyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
6,414 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#627
Vanessa Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift around 1713, built from the name of a woman he was writing to — and it later became the name of a genus of butterflies.
6,401 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#628
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
6,366 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#629
Elianna Elianna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God has answered".
6,304 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#632
Alyssa Alyssa is a girl's name from the flower alyssum, whose Greek name means without madness — the plant was believed to cure rabies.
6,277 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#635
Celine Celine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "heavenly."
6,261 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#640
Tessa Tessa is a girl's name that grew out of Theresa and is now used independently.
6,204 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#644
Laila Laila means night, and the romance built on it ran for a thousand years before Clapton — Layla and Majnun is a Persian retelling of an Arabic story, and it is the source both of the song and of the name's spread.
6,175 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#645
Annabelle Annabelle is a girl's name of disputed origin.
6,171 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#647
Joanna Joanna means God is gracious, and it charts in all seven markets we track — the United States 306th, Ireland 367th, Scotland 395th, Northern Ireland 432nd, England and Wales 514th and France 721st.
6,139 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#652
Rebecca Rebecca is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is unsettled, and the standard gloss involves a rope for tying cattle.
6,113 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#653
Maisie Maisie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
6,101 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#654
Selah Selah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is genuinely unknown.
6,088 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#655
Angelina Angelina means little angel, and the Greek root behind it means a messenger — the winged being is a later idea layered onto a word for someone carrying news.
6,075 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#662
Catherine Catherine is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is genuinely unknown — the familiar reading of pure is a later reshaping, not the original sense.
6,002 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#665
Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.
5,959 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#666
Trinity Trinity means threefold, and our data pins its rise to The Matrix with unusual precision — the film opened on 31 March 1999, and American births went 557 in 1998, 1,571 in 1999 and 4,386 in 2000, a partial year followed by a full one.
5,957 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#668
Samara Samara is a girl's name with several sources. In botany a samara is the winged seed of an elm or maple; it is also a Russian city on the Volga, an ancient Mesopotamian site, and a form of the Hebrew Shomron.
5,944 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#669
Evelynn Evelynn is a girl's name of Norman French origin, a modern respelling of Evelyn with a doubled N.
5,935 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#671
Mya Mya is a girl's name, usually a respelling of Maya or Mia, and the sources disagree completely about what it means.
5,929 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#672
Gabriela Gabriela means God is my strength, and the archangel behind it is the one who announces rather than fights — Gabriel delivers the message in both Daniel and Luke, and in Islamic tradition brings the Qur'an.
5,917 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#673
Thea Thea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "goddess."
5,908 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#677
Winter Winter is a girl's name taken from the season, from the Old English winter.
5,839 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#679
Nicole Nicole is a girl's name, the French feminine of Nicholas, meaning victory of the people.
5,823 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#680
Lauren Lauren is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," which became a women's name because a film studio invented one.
5,814 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#681
Adriana Adriana means from Hadria, a small town in northern Italy that also named the Adriatic Sea — so both the name and the sea are called after a settlement most people have never heard of.
5,810 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#682
Amina Amina is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "trustworthy" or "secure."
5,808 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#684
Charlee Charlee is a girl's name of Germanic origin, a respelling of Charlie.
5,802 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#685
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
5,800 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#686
Julianna Julianna descends from a Roman family name whose meaning was never settled — downy-bearded and devoted to Jove are both proposed for Julius, and the family's own claim was descent from Venus.
5,790 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#687
Paige Paige is a girl's name from a medieval job title meaning a young male servant, and it reached women by way of a surname.
5,788 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#688
Mckenna Mckenna means son of the fire god, and the name is 100 percent female in our records — the Mac is a literal patronymic and Cionaodh names a pre-Christian deity, neither of which has been softened.
5,772 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.