Most Popular Baby Names Of The 2020s
The top 100 girls’ and boys’ names across 2020–2025 — the decade so far. Explore their meanings, histories, and popularity today.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Honor or Arabic light; also a short form of Eleanor | 6,380#20 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
My pleasantness in Hebrew; Japanese meanings vary with the characters | 4,644#47 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Large grassy plain | 2,141#135 | Down 68 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Lily flower | 6,673#18 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
From Lydia | 2,692#92 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Wisdom | 8,252#9 | Up 8 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Long hill | 2,840#127 | Down 58 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Violet flower | 7,546#13 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Hay clearing, through Hayley | 2,556#104 | Down 23 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Elf ruler or elf counsel, through a surname | 5,267#37 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Life | 5,646#31 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
The new house | 3,232#108 | Down 17 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Maiden; little heart when shortened from Cordula | 2,428#113 | Down 25 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Ascension in biblical Hebrew; my God in a separate Hebrew form | 3,418#104 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Cola’s town | 3,420#103 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Lady; princess; noblewoman, through Sarah | 4,168#50 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Yahweh supports | 5,509#54 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Son of Adam | 2,971#84 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
The autumn season | 2,805#88 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
English rye clearing; also Irish Reilly surname | 4,441#48 | Down 15 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Harp player or maker | 6,792#16 | Down 6 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Wisdom, through Sophia | 3,984#55 | Up 20 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
God is my strong man through Gabriel | 2,545#105 | Down 28 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Brave boar, through Everard | 4,287#77 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Descendant of Nuallán; famous or loud root | 4,846#65 | Down 4 rank positions in five years | 2015 | ||
Elf ruler | 2,003#146 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Keeper of the park | 3,477#102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
My God is Yahweh, through Elijah | 8,837#13 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Night | 5,338#36 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Son of the steward | 5,805#51 | Down 16 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Gift of Yahweh, through Matthew | 11,045#8 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
New York place name; possibly broken land or marsh land; also Brook plus lyn | 2,300#118 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Unknown; probably Etruscan, through Camillus | 6,591#19 | Down 8 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
Barrel maker | 7,472#27 | Up 48 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Sanskrit illusion or magic; Hebrew water; Greek good mother via Maia | 3,712#62 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Possibly gracious or dear; historically associated with soldier | 6,072#44 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Possibly most holy, through Ariadne | 2,219#128 | Down 49 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Who is like Yahweh? Through Micaiah | 3,817#90 | Up 16 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Of Magdala; the place name means tower | 3,362#71 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Life, through Zoe | 3,427#69 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Son of Hudd or Hudde | 8,583#17 | Up 26 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Son of Jack, through Jackson | 3,073#115 | Down 67 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Scarlet-cloth maker or seller | 5,644#32 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Happy, blessed | 7,456#28 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Yahweh is gracious | 5,634#33 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
High; lofty; sublime | 2,607#101 | Down 36 rank positions in five years | 2012 | ||
Possibly duck; alternative weaving-related roots | 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Uncertain; probably torch, possibly related to moon | 4,836#42 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Help | 8,126#20 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Familiar form of Eleanor, Ellen, Elizabeth, and other El names | 6,176#24 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2024 |
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Year by year in the 2020s
This list includes the top 100 girls’ and boys’ names by total use across 2020–2025. Table birth counts and ranks show 2025, and rank movement covers the latest five years. Search, filters, and sorting stay within this decade’s name list.
Counts are based on U.S. births and are tracked separately for girls and boys. Names used fewer than 5 times in a year aren’t published for that year, so totals here are a floor — the shortfall is largest in the sparse early years.