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.
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#723Kalani Kalani is a unisex name of Hawaiian origin meaning "the heavens" or "the royal one".5,335 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#724Antonella Antonella is a girl's name of Italian origin, a diminutive of Antonia.5,322 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#726Alessia Alessia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender".5,302 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#728Noel Noel means Christmas, and its American peak was 2014 — the most recent peak of any name in this group by a wide margin.5,288 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#729Russell Russell is a boy's name from a Norman nickname meaning little red, given to someone red-haired or ruddy.5,285 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#731Sonny Sonny is a boy's name of English origin meaning exactly what it looks like — son.5,277 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#732Luciano Luciano is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".5,274 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#733Giselle Giselle means a pledge, and the pledge was a person — the Germanic gisil named a hostage given as security for a treaty.5,255 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#735Cesar Cesar is a boy's name from the Roman family name Caesar, whose own meaning the Romans could not agree on.5,250 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#736Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.5,250 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#737Ariyah Ariyah is a girl's name whose spelling is modern American but whose roots run in several directions.5,249 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#740Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.5,208 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#741Mariah Mariah shows the sharpest single-artist effect in our data.5,198 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#742Mathias Mathias is a boy's name, the French and Scandinavian form of Matthias, from a Hebrew name meaning gift of God.5,196 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#745Wilder Wilder is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "untamed" or "hunter".5,178 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#746Odin Odin is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning roughly "the frenzied one".5,176 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#747Miller Miller is a unisex name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who ground grain into flour.5,170 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#748Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.5,167 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#750Hector Hector is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "holding fast," borne by the Trojan prince who is the most sympathetic figure in the Iliad.5,158 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#751Rhys Rhys is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "ardor" or "enthusiasm," and it gave English the surname Price by way of a Welsh word for son.5,154 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#753Lawson Lawson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Law", where Law is a medieval short form of Lawrence.5,139 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#754Heidi Heidi is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble one."5,131 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#755Banks Banks is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a slope or a riverbank.5,115 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#756Jared Jared is a boy's name from Hebrew meaning descent, borne by the father of Enoch — the one man in Genesis who does not die but is taken.5,113 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#757Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.5,112 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#758Kane Kane is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle", from Ó Catháin.5,104 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#760Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.5,075 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#763Navy Navy is a unisex name taken from the English word for a fleet, which comes through French from the Latin navis, a ship.5,033 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#765Kyle Kyle is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "narrow strait," taken from a district of Ayrshire.5,018 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#766Francesca Francesca is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "free one" or "Frenchwoman."5,015 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#768Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.5,007 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.