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

#870
Nylah Nylah is a modern girl's name whose origin is disputed.
4,390 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#871
Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
4,390 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#873
Alicia Alicia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a Latinate form of Alice.
4,350 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#874
Izabella
4,347 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#875
Helen Helen is a girl's name from Greek whose meaning is not settled, though torch and shining are the usual readings.
4,347 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#878
Amiyah
4,339 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#880
Rylie Rylie is a girl's name in the United States, also used for some boys, and it's a spelling of Riley.
4,332 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#881
Liana Liana is a girl's name with two sources. It is a short form of Juliana, Eliana and similar names, and independently the botanical word for a woody climbing vine — from the French lier, to bind, which is also the root of liaison.
4,331 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#883
Destiny Destiny is a word name meaning a fixed future, and its root is a verb about standing firm — the Latin destinare means to make fast or fix in place, so the idea is settled rather than foreseen.
4,311 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#884
Maryam Maryam is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the Arabic form of Miriam and Mary.
4,304 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#885
Saige Saige is a girl's name, also used for some boys, and it's a modern spelling of Sage.
4,296 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#887
Sylvie Sylvie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of the forest."
4,290 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#888
Daleyza
4,268 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#889
Raya Raya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
4,261 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#890
Sarai Sarai is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the name Abraham's wife carried before God renamed her Sarah.
4,256 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#892
Charli Charli is a girl's name, a feminine spelling of Charlie.
4,248 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#893
Elisa Elisa means my God is an oath, shortened from Elizabeth, and France ranks it 202nd — its strongest market, ahead of England and Wales at 377th, Ireland at 382nd and the United States at 458th.
4,242 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#894
Itzel Itzel is a girl's name of Maya origin whose meaning is contested.
4,235 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#895
Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7,188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
4,224 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#899
Cassidy Cassidy means curly-haired, from an Irish surname — and Scotland ranks it 416th, above Northern Ireland at 464th and the United States at 541st, with Ireland itself back at 807th.
4,209 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#902
Lorelai Lorelai is a girl's name of German origin naming a rock on the Rhine, where a siren was said to lure boatmen to their deaths.
4,190 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#903
Holly Holly is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the tree, from holegn.
4,183 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#904
Felicity Felicity is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "happiness" or "good fortune."
4,179 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#906
Carolina Carolina means free man, and two American states carry it — both Carolinas are named for Charles I in Latin, so a Germanic word for a peasant ended up on the map through a king.
4,174 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#907
Daniella Daniella means God is my judge, and the name is a legal claim — Daniel's story turns on false accusation and vindication, so the name states in advance who decides the case.
4,170 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#908
Maia Maia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "mother" or "nurse."
4,161 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#909
Helena Helena is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is unresolved, and its saint is credited with finding the True Cross.
4,145 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#910
Zariah Zariah is a girl's name of modern American coinage, built on the pattern of Zaria, Azariah and Mariah.
4,144 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#911
Makenna
4,140 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#916
Haisley Haisley is a modern girl's name, often read as "hazel wood."
4,113 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#917
Bianca Bianca means white, and France ranks it 242nd — ahead of Ireland at 373rd, the United States at 501st, England and Wales at 548th and Scotland at 742nd.
4,106 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#921
Elora Elora is a girl's name with no settled origin.
4,061 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#923
Lorelei Lorelei is a girl's name from a rock on the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany.
4,037 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#924
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
4,034 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#926
Brinley
4,022 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#931
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never been established.
4,006 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#934
Ivory Ivory is a unisex name taken from the material, whose word comes through French and Latin from an Egyptian word for elephant.
3,989 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#935
Scarlet Scarlet is a girl's name from the bright red color, a spelling of Scarlett.
3,985 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#937
Dorothy Dorothy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God."
3,984 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#939
Avianna
3,979 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#940
Mallory Mallory means unlucky, and it is one of very few names built on an insult — the Norman malheuré described someone ill-fated, and it became a surname before anyone used it as a first name.
3,975 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#942
Anya Anya is a girl's name of Russian origin, a diminutive of Anna.
3,974 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#947
Marlee
3,955 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#958
Heaven Heaven is a girl's name from the English word for paradise, from the Old English heofon.
3,910 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#959
Lexi Lexi is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," a diminutive of Alexandra taken from the middle of the name rather than the start.
3,908 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#960
Emely
3,906 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#961
Ainsley Ainsley is a name of English and Scottish use, given mainly to girls, from a surname meaning "solitary clearing."
3,904 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#962
Amanda Amanda is a girl's name from the Latin for she who must be loved, and one of the few names on this site that can be dated to a specific literary invention — Colley Cibber used it for a character in his 1696 play Love's Last Shift.
3,904 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.