Rankings

Most Popular Girl Names of the 2020s

The top 50 girl names by total births in the 2020s decade so far.

Olivia
#1 name
50
names ranked

Data updated Jun 2026

The verdict

Olivia tops most popular girl names of the 2020s at 95,853 -- it takes just 25,044 to crack this 50-name list, a 3.8x spread from #1 to #50.

95,853
Olivia, #1
25,044
Leah, #50 (the cutoff)
3.8x
spread, top to bottom

Same ranked rows that render the table below -- row 1 here is row 1 there.

Olivia tops the most popular girl names of the 2020s list with a decade total of 95,853.

According to Social Security Administration data, Olivia leads the most popular girl names of the 2020s ranking at 95,853, ahead of Emma (85,652) and Charlotte (78,055). This ranking covers 50 names total, sorted by decade total from SSA birth-registration files.

  • Olivia #1 by decade total
  • Emma #2
  • 50 names ranked

What This Ranking Tells Us

Olivia leads the 2020s for girl names, followed by Emma, Charlotte, and Amelia. The decade shows strong preference for feminine names ending in -a (Olivia, Emma, Amelia, Sophia, Mia) and names with literary/historical associations (Charlotte, Eleanor, Evelyn). Nature-inspired names (Willow, Luna, Ivy) have risen dramatically. The top girl names are more evenly distributed than boy names, the gap between #1 and #50 is smaller, reflecting greater diversity in naming choices for girls.

What the Data Says About This Ranking

This ranking lists 50 names drawn from the Social Security Administration's baby-name archive, filtered and sorted by decade total. The #1 entry is Olivia with a decade total of 95,853, followed by Emma at 85,652 and Charlotte at 78,055. The bottom of the list, Leah (25,044), helps define the cutoff qualifying a name for inclusion here. Every name in this ranking meets the SSA's five-occurrence minimum threshold for public disclosure, so private rare names are excluded from consideration.

Across all 50 ranked entries, the average decade total is 41,714, giving a statistical center of gravity for what "popular" means in this specific ranking context. Olivia leads the 2020s for girl names, followed by Emma, Charlotte, and Amelia. Rankings of this type are sensitive to how the underlying data is cut: a top-50 list reflects different signals than a top-500 list, and combining spelling variants (Sophia + Sofia) versus keeping them separate, as the SSA does, produces materially different orderings. The rankings displayed here use the SSA's raw spelling-specific data without combining variants.

Because the SSA updates its baby-name files annually (typically each May), this ranking can shift year over year as new birth cohorts are added and historical revisions are applied. Names that appear to be rising or falling should be interpreted against the five-year-minimum sample sizes SSA requires; short-term movement on a single-year basis can be noisy. Source: Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data. This page summarizes publicly released SSA data and is provided for research and informational purposes only; it is not intended as personal naming advice or a recommendation of any specific name for a given child.

Most Popular Girl Names of the 2020s

Ranked by decade total, each row links to the full name profile

  1. 1
    Olivia 95,853
  2. 2
    Emma 85,652
  3. 3
    Charlotte 78,055
  4. 4
    Amelia 76,108
  5. 5
    Sophia 74,758
  6. 6
    Mia 68,154
  7. 7
    Isabella 67,643
  8. 8
    Ava 63,350
  9. 9
    Evelyn 55,734
  10. 10
    Harper 47,509
  11. 11
    Luna 46,161
  12. 12
    Camila 45,999
  13. 13
    Sofia 45,288
  14. 14
    Eleanor 41,966
  15. 15
    Elizabeth 41,893
  16. 16
    Gianna 39,710
  17. 17
    Scarlett 38,284
  18. 18
    Violet 38,031
  19. 19
    Ella 37,920
  20. 20
    Emily 37,622
  21. 21
    Chloe 37,588
  22. 22
    Abigail 37,379
  23. 23
    Aria 37,059
  24. 24
    Penelope 37,005
  25. 25
    Aurora 36,888
  26. 26
    Hazel 36,638
  27. 27
    Avery 36,617
  28. 28
    Nora 36,567
  29. 29
    Lily 35,872
  30. 30
    Ellie 35,725
  31. 31
    Mila 35,670
  32. 32
    Layla 35,046
  33. 33
    Eliana 33,359
  34. 34
    Madison 32,429
  35. 35
    Isla 32,186
  36. 36
    Grace 31,533
  37. 37
    Nova 31,518
  38. 38
    Zoe 31,129
  39. 39
    Lucy 29,759
  40. 40
    Riley 29,219
  41. 41
    Willow 28,868
  42. 42
    Ivy 28,572
  43. 43
    Emilia 28,338
  44. 44
    Victoria 27,560
  45. 45
    Stella 27,117
  46. 46
    Naomi 26,665
  47. 47
    Hannah 26,230
  48. 48
    Zoey 26,222
  49. 49
    Elena 26,192
  50. 50
    Leah 25,044

Source Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data · 2026-06-08

The bar to make this list

Where the #50 cutoff (Leah, 25,044) sits among girl names with any 2020s births

25,044 Top 1% higher than 99% of 27,729 girl names with any 2020s births

5–9,590: 27,541 girl names with any 2020s births (99%). Below this entry. 9,590–19,175: 119 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Below this entry. 19,175–28,759: 28 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). This entry sits in this band. 28,759–38,344: 25 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 38,344–47,929: 7 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 47,929–57,514: 1 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 57,514–67,099: 1 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 67,099–76,683: 4 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 76,683–86,268: 2 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. 86,268–95,853: 1 girl names with any 2020s births (0%). Above this entry. #50 cutoff 5 95,853 every girl name with a 2020s birth, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more girl names with any 2020s births. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data · 2026-06-08

Source: Social Security Administration, Baby Names Data - U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications (ssa.gov).

Source: SSA Baby Names Methodology, names with fewer than 5 annual occurrences are excluded to protect privacy.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are girl names more diverse than boy names?

In this dataset, girl-name popularity is more spread out than boy-name popularity: across the full 1880-2025 historical record, the top 10 boy names account for roughly 6.8% of all boy births, versus about 2.5% for the top 10 girl names. The concentration pattern itself is measurable in SSA data; the reasons behind it (parental risk tolerance, social expectations, or other cultural factors) are a matter of interpretation the data alone cannot confirm.

What naming trends define the 2020s for girls?

Key trends include: vintage revival names (Eleanor, Hazel, Violet), nature names (Willow, Luna, Ivy), names ending in -a or -ia (Olivia, Sophia, Amelia), strong literary associations (Charlotte, Eleanor), and crossover names from previously male-associated names (Emerson, Quinn). There is also growing interest in unique spellings and international names.

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from the U.S. Social Security Administration. See our methodology for details.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this ranking is computed directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files, which document 105,966 distinct names across 2,181,032 national year-by-name records spanning 1880-2025.

What to do with this ranking

  • Olivia leads this list at 95,853, 3.8x the #50 entry (Leah, 25,044) -- a comparatively even spread across the list.
  • See Olivia's full history -- year-by-year SSA data, decade breakdown, and state popularity. Olivia's profile
  • Want to weigh two names from this list against each other? Compare names

Every name in this ranking meets the SSA's five-occurrence minimum threshold for public disclosure.

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NameAlmanac Editorial. "Most Popular Girl Names of the 2020s: Olivia Is #1." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/rankings/top-2020s-girls. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This decade total ranking is computed directly from the SSA's raw name files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.