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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#1,494Paula Paula is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.2,130 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,497Tony Tony is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, whose meaning has never been established.2,126 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,511Rex Rex means king, and it is the plain Latin nominative — which makes it the pair to Regis, the genitive meaning of the king.2,106 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,517Shea Shea is a unisex name of Irish origin from the surname Ó Séaghdha, whose root means "hawk-like" or "stately."2,092 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,518Celia Celia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caelius, whose meaning is disputed between "heaven" and a much older Etruscan word.2,092 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,520Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.2,089 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,521Shay Shay is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "hawk-like" or "stately," the phonetic spelling of the Irish Séaghdha.2,088 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,522Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.2,087 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,527Aila Aila is a girl's name used independently in Finnish, Scottish and Arabic naming, and the three have nothing to do with each other.2,075 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,533Adhara Adhara is a girl's name taken from a star — the second brightest in Canis Major — whose name comes from the Arabic al-adhara, meaning "the maidens".2,062 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,534Harry Harry is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."2,061 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.