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.

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Rankings for

#773
Esmeralda Esmeralda is not the character's name in the novel — Hugo's girl is christened Agnès and called Esmeralda for the green amulet she wears, so the name most readers know her by is a nickname.
4,964 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#775
Sabrina Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn, and the legend behind it is a drowning — a princess thrown into the river became its spirit.
4,959 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#776
Meadow Meadow is a girl's name from the English word for grassland, whose root means "to mow" — so a meadow is defined by being cut.
4,959 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#777
Aniyah Aniyah is a girl's name of disputed origin.
4,956 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#779
Brynn Brynn is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "hill".
4,951 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#780
Viviana Viviana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive".
4,950 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#781
Rosie Rosie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
4,950 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#782
Mckenzie Mckenzie means son of Coinneach, and the z was never a z — it replaced a lost Scots letter called yogh, so the name has been mispronounced into its own spelling.
4,915 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#784
Lilliana Lilliana is a girl's name that's generally read as "lily," and it's a spelling variation of Liliana.
4,894 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#788
Frances Frances is a girl's name meaning a Frank, or a free one, and the feminine of Francis.
4,883 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#789
Cali Cali is a girl's name with several possible sources.
4,883 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#790
Gwendolyn Gwendolyn means white ring or blessed ring, from Welsh, and the second element is a ring — a torc or armlet, which was the standard Celtic mark of rank.
4,882 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#791
Melissa Melissa is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bee," and it was the title of the priestesses who served Demeter.
4,863 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#792
Adelynn Adelynn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble."
4,855 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#793
Demi Demi is a girl's name usually explained as French for "half", from the Latin dimidius.
4,853 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#798
Anaya Anaya is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
4,822 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#800
Malani Malani is a girl's name of uncertain origin.
4,798 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#807
Willa Willa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute" or "will".
4,761 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#809
Michelle Michelle is a girl's name, the French feminine of Michel, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
4,751 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#810
Adelina Adelina is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
4,750 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#814
Alexandria Alexandria is the city before it is the name — Alexander founded it in 331 BC, and the feminine given name was formed from the place rather than directly from Alexandra, which took a different route.
4,727 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#816
Hattie Hattie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
4,719 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#817
Aylin Aylin is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning "moon halo".
4,719 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#821
Lana Lana is a girl's name with several competing origins — a Hawaiian word for calm, a Slavic short form of Svetlana, and a Hollywood invention of the 1930s.
4,706 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#824
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
4,695 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#827
Alessandra Alessandra is a girl's name meaning "defender of the people."
4,663 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#832
Raelyn
4,636 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#833
Kira Kira has three unrelated sources — the Irish for dark, a Russian feminine of the Persian for lord, and a Japanese word for glittering — and nothing in the spelling tells you which one a given Kira belongs to.
4,634 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#834
Aurelia Aurelia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "golden."
4,630 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#835
Sylvia Sylvia is a girl's name from the Latin for a forest, and the mother of Rome's founders bore it — Rhea Silvia, who was made a Vestal Virgin so she could not produce heirs.
4,608 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#838
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
4,595 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#839
Astrid Astrid is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "divinely beautiful".
4,586 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#840
Elaine Elaine is a girl's name, the Old French form of Helen, whose meaning was never established.
4,579 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#841
Gracelyn
4,572 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#843
Miracle Miracle is a girl's name taken from the English word, from Latin miraculum, "object of wonder."
4,565 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#846
Arielle Arielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lion of God".
4,535 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#848
Everlee
4,528 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#850
Elle Elle is a girl's name identical to the French word for she, and also used as a short form of Eleanor and Ellen.
4,521 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#851
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
4,505 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#852
Madeleine Madeleine is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, and it is a place name rather than a description.
4,498 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#856
Aisha Aisha is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "living" or "alive."
4,482 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#857
Alanna Alanna is a girl's name usually given as the feminine of Alan, a Breton name whose own meaning is not established.
4,476 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#863
Annalise Annalise is a girl's name of German origin, a compound of Anna and Liese.
4,435 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#864
Julieta Julieta is a girl's name of Latin origin, the Spanish form of Juliet and a diminutive of Julia.
4,434 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#865
Skye Skye is a girl's name taken from the Hebridean island, whose own name is disputed between a Gaelic root meaning "winged" and a Norse one meaning "cloud."
4,434 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#866
Mira Mira is a girl's name that arrives from at least four unrelated directions — Latin for wonderful, Slavic for peace, Sanskrit through the poet Mirabai, and the name of a variable star.
4,433 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#867
Makayla Makayla is one of a large family of respellings of Michaela, and the name underneath is a question — Michael means who is like God, expecting the answer nobody.
4,406 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#868
Colette Colette is a girl's name meaning victory of the people, a French diminutive of Nicole.
4,403 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.