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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#1,733Sidney Sidney is a name of Old English origin meaning "wide meadow."1,727 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,750Simone Simone is a girl's name meaning he has heard, the French feminine of Simon.1,701 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,755Byron Byron means at the cattle sheds — a working place name that became shorthand for romantic poetry, which is a longer journey than most names make.1,696 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,759Toby Toby is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is good."1,691 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,770Nancy Nancy is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace."1,677 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#1,776Joe Joe is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," a short form of Joseph that has become the English word for an ordinary person.1,667 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.