Baby names of 2020

Olivia and Liam topped the lists in 2020, out of 3,342,625 births recorded across 28,878 different names. That is 3.7% fewer than the 2019 files hold. About 3.3 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Olivia	17,691
2	Emma	15,723
3	Ava	13,201
4	Sophia	13,105
5	Charlotte	13,100
6	Amelia	12,802
7	Isabella	12,226
8	Mia	11,269
9	Evelyn	9,517
10	Harper	8,849
11	Camila	8,165
12	Abigail	7,917
13	Gianna	7,903
14	Luna	7,850
15	Ella	7,372
16	Elizabeth	7,308
17	Sofia	6,990
18	Emily	6,918
19	Avery	6,747
20	Mila	6,646
21	Scarlett	6,521
22	Eleanor	6,379
23	Madison	6,253
24	Layla	6,228
25	Chloe	6,153

All 200 girls’ names of 2020 (17,527 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Liam	19,865
2	Noah	18,464
3	Oliver	14,277
4	Elijah	13,238
5	William	12,676
6	James	12,390
7	Benjamin	12,264
8	Lucas	11,386
9	Henry	10,793
10	Alexander	10,268
11	Mason	10,117
12	Michael	9,833
13	Ethan	9,556
14	Daniel	9,530
15	Jacob	9,309
16	Logan	9,163
17	Jackson	9,138
18	Levi	9,098
19	Sebastian	9,029
20	Mateo	9,007
21	Jack	8,945
22	Owen	8,669
23	Theodore	8,638
24	Aiden	8,619
25	Samuel	8,594

All 200 boys’ names of 2020 (14,060 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 2019:

Avayah #2,428 → #936 +1,492
Denisse #1,802 → #852 +950
Jianna #1,668 → #850 +818
Capri #1,291 → #682 +609
Rosalia #1,287 → #737 +550
Denise #1,383 → #876 +507
Zhuri #1,377 → #992 +385
Haisley #758 → #373 +385

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 2019:

Zyair #1,548 → #961 +587
Jaxtyn #1,152 → #585 +567
Jakobe #1,372 → #833 +539
Kylo #922 → #449 +473
Ander #1,085 → #624 +461
Aziel #953 → #495 +458
Dior #1,303 → #866 +437
Truett #1,365 → #957 +408

Dior is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 2020, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 2020:

Dalett 96
Cennet 87
Ulanni 44
Souline 37
Ayzal 30
Amavi 30
Kazleigh 19
Yoatzi 19
Brixleigh 19
Siaani 16

First recorded in 2020, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 2020:

Jahkor 14
Krown 14
Itzan 14
Aarnik 14
Azhir 13
Hardyn 12
Ezrin 12
Amavi 12
Deluka 12
Baaz 11

Amavi is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.