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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#2,114Amal Amal is a name of Arabic origin meaning "hope" or "aspiration."1,298 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,120Howard Howard is a boy's name whose origin is genuinely contested — high guardian, brave heart and even a keeper of pigs have all been proposed.1,295 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,126Bobby Bobby is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."1,292 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,130Lyle Lyle is a boy's name from the Norman French for "the island," and the l at the front is the definite article rather than part of the word.1,286 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,134Brett Brett means a Breton — someone from Brittany, which is named for the Britons who fled there when the Anglo-Saxons arrived.1,281 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,136Betty Betty is a girl's name that began as a short form of Elizabeth and is now used in its own right.1,280 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,139Yuna Yuna is a girl's name used independently in Breton, Japanese and Korean, and the three have nothing to do with each other.1,279 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,140Beverly Beverly is a name from an English town meaning beaver stream, and it began as a boys' name before crossing decisively to girls.1,279 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,143Casper Casper is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer."1,277 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,147Cara Cara is a girl's name with two independent sources: the Italian cara, meaning "dear" or "beloved," and the Irish cara, meaning "friend."1,273 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,149Ida Ida is a girl's name from a Germanic word for work or labor, and it charts in all seven markets we track.1,270 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,150Cory Cory has at least three unrelated origins — a Norse island name, an Irish surname and a Greek word for a maiden — and English cannot distinguish them.1,269 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,153Yusra Yusra is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "ease" or "prosperity."1,267 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,154Darla Darla is a girl's name coined in twentieth-century America from the word darling.1,267 in the 2020s 6 of 10 years
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#2,158Christine Christine is a girl's name from the Latin for a follower of Christ, the French form of Christina.1,263 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.