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

#625
Adelyn Adelyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
6,414 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#626
Emory Emory is a unisex name of Germanic origin, a variant of Emery.
6,403 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
#630
Salem Salem is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "complete" or "at peace".
6,291 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#631
Jaziel Jaziel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God allots" or "God apportions."
6,285 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
#633
Royal Royal is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Latin regalis — of a king.
6,269 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#634
Cairo Cairo is a boy's name taken from the Egyptian capital, whose Arabic name al-Qahirah means "the vanquisher".
6,261 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
#636
Gideon Gideon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "hewer" or "one who cuts down".
6,252 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#637
Romeo Romeo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "pilgrim to Rome."
6,245 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#638
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
6,243 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#639
Harvey Harvey is a boy's name of Breton origin meaning "battle worthy."
6,224 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
#641
Orion Orion is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the mythological hunter and the constellation named for him.
6,199 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#642
Bradley Bradley is a boy's name from an English place name meaning broad meadow.
6,178 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#643
Brantley
6,176 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
#646
Karson Karson is a boy's name of Scottish and Irish origin, a respelling of Carson.
6,163 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
#648
Khalil Khalil is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "friend" — specifically a close and trusted one.
6,131 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#649
Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".
6,130 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#650
Koa Koa is a boy's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "warrior" or "brave."
6,128 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#651
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
6,128 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
#656
Sullivan Sullivan is a boy's name of Irish origin, from Ó Súilleabháin.
6,070 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#657
Cristian Cristian drops the h from Christian, and the h was never in the Greek pronunciation anyway — it marks a letter that Latin borrowed as a digraph, so the Spanish and Romanian spelling is the plainer one.
6,048 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#658
Onyx Onyx is a unisex name taken from the banded black stone, whose Greek name onyx means "fingernail" or "claw".
6,039 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#659
Baker Baker is a boy's name of English origin, an occupational surname for someone who baked bread.
6,037 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#660
Zander Zander is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Alexander meaning "defender of men".
6,036 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#661
Jaden Jaden is a modern American name with a genuine biblical original behind it — Jadon appears once in Nehemiah, as a man who helped rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and almost nothing else is known of him.
6,004 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
#663
Colson Colson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Col", where Col is a medieval short form of Nicholas.
5,984 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
#664
Bowen Bowen is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "son of Owain".
5,964 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
#667
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
5,951 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
#670
Leonel Leonel is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "little lion".
5,930 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

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.