2020s Baby Names

37,732 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#577
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
6,935 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#578
Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.
6,907 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#579
Angela Angela is a girl's name from the Greek for messenger, the word that also gives us angel.
6,897 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#580
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
6,889 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#581
Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.
6,863 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#582
Rylan Rylan has no documented source, and the little king gloss repeated for it is unsupported — the likeliest reading is rye land, an English place name, but even that is not established.
6,848 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#583
Warren Warren is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and it is the second-strongest revival we hold — it peaked in 1921 and now ranks 240th in the United States on 1,493 births, a century later.
6,845 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#584
Alora Alora is a girl's name of modern coinage with no settled origin.
6,830 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#585
Milani Milani is a girl's name of disputed origin.
6,826 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#586
Ali Ali is a name of Arabic origin meaning "exalted" or "high."
6,820 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#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
#588
Cody Cody is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicising Ó Cuidighthigh, meaning "descendant of the helpful one."
6,814 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
#590
Baylor Baylor is a unisex name of English origin whose meaning is unsettled.
6,787 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
#592
Jaylen Jaylen has no etymology, and the meanings offered for it contradict each other — healer, tranquil, devoted to Jove and supplanter all appear online, which is what happens when sources fill a blank.
6,782 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#593
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
6,778 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#594
Brian Brian is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed, and neither is secure.
6,773 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#595
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
6,753 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#596
Reid Reid means red, and it is the Scots spelling of the color — a byname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, which is why it charts across six markets that all had Scots settlement.
6,746 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#597
Kamari Kamari is a unisex name usually connected to the Arabic qamar, the moon, and also used as a Swahili name and as a modern American coinage.
6,742 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
#599
Cyrus Cyrus is a boy's name of Persian origin whose meaning is not settled.
6,680 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
#601
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
6,645 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#602
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
6,643 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#603
Colin Colin has two entirely separate origins — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean.
6,638 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
#607
Angelo Angelo means messenger, and it charts in all seven markets we track within a 365-place spread — the United States 304th, France 343rd, Northern Ireland 397th, Scotland 522nd, England and Wales 569th and Ireland 669th.
6,584 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#608
Cruz Cruz is a name of Spanish origin meaning "cross."
6,572 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
#612
Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".
6,548 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
#614
Cayden Cayden charts in all seven markets we track and has no etymology at all — it belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, alongside Kaiden which is written up separately here.
6,532 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#615
Otto Otto is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."
6,527 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
#618
Dante Dante means enduring, and it is a nickname that outlived its full form — the poet was christened Durante, and almost nobody has used that name since, while the short version became international.
6,510 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#619
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
6,506 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
#621
Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.
6,434 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#622
Niko Niko is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Nikolaos meaning "victory of the people".
6,426 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#623
Colter Colter is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "horse keeper."
6,417 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

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.