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 — 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 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 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 birth records pin 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

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.