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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#1,393Cheyenne Cheyenne is not the Cheyenne people's own name for themselves — it is a Sioux word meaning red speakers, applied from outside.2,370 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,400Arlette Arlette is nearly extinct in France — five births last year — while rising sharply in America, where births went from 238 in 2020 to 600 in 2025.2,349 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,404Dillon Dillon has two unrelated sources that English cannot separate — an Irish surname of uncertain meaning and the Welsh Dylan, a sea god from the Mabinogi.2,340 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,408Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.2,334 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,410Cassian Cassian is a boy's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Cassius.2,333 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,412Mac Mac is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for son, which appears in every Mc- and Mac- surname there is.2,323 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,416Tommy Tommy is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin."2,317 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,430Louisa Louisa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," a Latinate form of Louise.2,285 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,436Flynn Flynn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "reddish" or "ruddy," from a surname rather than a personal name.2,269 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,437Liv Liv is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "protection," which modern Scandinavian speakers reinterpret as "life" because it now resembles that word.2,267 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.