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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#1,345Gage Gage means a pledge, and it names the object rather than the person — the thing handed over as security.2,462 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,346Marilyn Marilyn is a girl's name usually read as a blend of Mary and Lyn.2,459 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,353Leonard Leonard is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "lion-strong," and its saint is the patron of prisoners and of women in labor.2,446 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,361Chris Chris shortens two unrelated Greek names — Christopher, which means bearing Christ, and Christine, which means belonging to Christ.2,433 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,362Dustin Dustin is a boy's name from the Old Norse Thorstein, meaning Thor's stone — the dust in the spelling is pure coincidence.2,432 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,365Megan Megan is a girl's name, the Welsh pet form of Margaret, from a Greek word for pearl that reached Europe from Persian.2,429 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,367Ahmed Ahmed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "most praiseworthy."2,425 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,369Martha Martha is a girl's name of Aramaic origin meaning "lady" or "mistress of the house."2,421 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,370Julie Julie is a girl's name, the French form of Julia, from a Roman family name of uncertain origin.2,420 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,372Aya Aya is a girl's name with separate Arabic and Japanese origins: in Arabic it means "sign" or "verse" of the Quran, and in Japanese "color" or "woven silk."2,417 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,375Chelsea Chelsea is a girl's name from a London district whose name means chalk landing place — a wharf where chalk was unloaded from boats on the Thames.2,413 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,385Quentin Quentin is a boy's name meaning fifth — a Roman birth-order name, given to a fifth child or one born in the fifth month.2,390 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,389Lillie Lillie is a girl's name from the flower, which has stood for purity in Christian art for so long that the association predates the name.2,380 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,392Penny Penny is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Penelope, whose own name is bound up with a duck.2,373 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.