2020s Baby Names
3,775 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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#42Avery Avery is a name of English origin meaning "elf counsel," derived from the Norman French form of the Germanic name Alberich.45,853 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#76Parker Parker is a name of English origin meaning "park keeper."36,754 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#95Angel Angel is a name of Greek origin meaning "messenger," from angelos.32,714 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#98Rowan Rowan is a name with two origins. The Irish line comes from Ó Ruadháin, from ruadh meaning red, giving "little red-haired one."32,069 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#109River River is a name taken from the English word, which comes through Anglo-Norman from the Latin riparius, meaning "of the riverbank."29,044 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#130Charlie Charlie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."25,970 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#136Sawyer Sawyer is a name of English origin meaning "one who saws wood."25,055 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#144Micah Micah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "who is like Yahweh?" — a rhetorical question expecting the answer that nobody is.24,238 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#162Quinn Quinn is a name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn."21,681 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#181Emery Emery is a name of Germanic origin, from Emmerich, generally analyzed as combining elements meaning work or power with ric, meaning ruler.20,379 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#185Eden Eden is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "delight" or "pleasure," from the garden of Genesis.20,110 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#196Hayden Hayden is a name of Old English origin meaning "hay valley" or "hedged hill."18,966 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#197Emerson Emerson is a name of English origin meaning "son of Emery."18,938 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#209Aubrey Aubrey is a name of Germanic origin meaning "elf ruler."17,969 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#243Zion Zion is a name of Hebrew origin naming the hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city and the promised land itself.16,498 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#249Peyton Peyton is a name of Old English origin meaning "Pæga's settlement."16,239 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#263Tatum Tatum is a name of Old English origin meaning "Tata's homestead."15,252 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#274Oakley Oakley is a name of Old English origin meaning "oak clearing" or "oak meadow."14,806 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#276Ashton Ashton is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree settlement."14,718 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#292Rory Rory is a name of Irish and Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king."14,040 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#294Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."13,923 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#318Dakota Dakota means friend or ally in the Dakota language, and it is one of very few widely used names taken from an Indigenous North American language.12,908 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#319Reese Reese is a name of Welsh origin meaning "ardour" or "enthusiasm."12,895 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#326Remington Remington is a unisex name of English origin, a place name meaning the settlement by the boundary stream.12,596 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#331Sutton Sutton is a name of Old English origin meaning "southern settlement."12,317 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#337Karter Karter is a unisex name of English origin, a respelling of Carter, the occupational surname for someone who drove a cart.12,039 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#371Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.10,950 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#387Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."10,650 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#394Lennox Lennox is a unisex name from a Scottish district whose name means "place of elm trees," and our data records it as unisex.10,527 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#396Shiloh Shiloh is a unisex name of Hebrew origin taken from a place rather than a word, the sanctuary town where the Israelites kept the Ark of the Covenant.10,462 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#401Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.10,340 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#404Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.10,158 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#422Lennon Lennon is a unisex name of Irish origin, an anglicized form of the surname Ó Leannáin.9,828 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#427Milan Milan is a unisex name of Slavic origin meaning "gracious" or "dear," from the element mil.9,635 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#428Ellis Ellis is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."9,628 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#435Aspen Aspen is a unisex name of English origin taken from the tree, whose leaves tremble in the slightest wind.9,395 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#438Wren Wren is a name of Old English origin taken from the bird, from wrenna.9,223 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.