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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#2,026Romy 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 genuinely unknown meaning.1,358 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,048Viola 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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#2,058Imran 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
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.