Top Baby Names of the 2020s

What the Data Says About the 2020s

The Social Security Administration's 2020s national files cumulate 4,710,098 births across the top 50 boy and top 50 girl names for the decade. Liam led the boys with 124,842 births, while Olivia led the girls with 95,853 births. The top 50 boys of the 2020s collectively captured 2,624,414 births versus 2,085,684 for the top 50 girls, the typical SSA pattern in which a narrower set of boy names dominates a wider share of total registrations. Names occurring fewer than five times in a given year are suppressed by SSA for privacy, so these totals represent only the public-disclosure portion of the decade's actual naming distribution.

The 2020s occupied a specific cultural moment in U.S. naming history. The current decade shows continued diversification with short, classic names like Liam, Noah, Olivia, and Emma leading, a distinct shift from the trendy constructions that dominated the 2000s and 2010s.

Decade totals on this page aggregate SSA national name-year records across all ten years of the 2020s. Because the SSA excludes names with fewer than five annual occurrences, the true number of unique names given during the 2020s is substantially higher than the top-50 lists shown here, particularly for rare and emerging names that never crossed the disclosure threshold. Each spelling is also tracked as a separate entry, so combined pools (e.g., Sophia + Sofia, Aiden + Ayden) would produce different rankings. This page is provided for informational and research purposes and does not constitute naming, legal, or genealogical advice.