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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#2,022Carl Carl is a boy's name from the Germanic word for a free man, the same root as Charles.1,388 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,024Romy Romy is a girl's name of Latin origin, a pet form of Rosemarie or Rosemary.1,383 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,028Ingrid Ingrid carries a god's name — Ing, the Norse deity the Swedish kings claimed descent from, joined to a word meaning beautiful.1,380 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,031Sandra Sandra is a girl's name that began as an Italian short form of Alessandra and became independent in the twentieth century.1,377 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,036Rian Rian is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little king," from the Old Irish rí, king, with a diminutive ending.1,371 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,043Susan Susan is a girl's name from a Hebrew word for lily, taken in turn from an Egyptian word for lotus.1,361 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,047Karen Karen is a girl's name, the Danish form of Katherine, and it inherits that name's unknown meaning.1,358 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,049Viola Viola means violet, and it names the flower, the instrument and a Shakespeare heroine from the same Latin root.1,357 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,059Imran Imran is a boy's name of Arabic origin, the name of the father of Mary in Islamic tradition and the title of the third chapter of the Quran.1,346 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.