10 Girl Names Falling Fastest in the US (2020 → 2024)

June 5, 2026

The four years between 2020 and 2024 reshuffled the girl-name chart almost as much as they reshuffled the rest of life. These are the ten names that fell furthest — all of them top-300 girl picks in 2020, all of them well outside the top 350 today.

The list

1. Alexa — from #230 in 2020 to #806 in 2024 (−576). The biggest fall on the list, and it has an obvious culprit: a smart-speaker named Alexa moved into millions of US homes. Parents stopped naming their daughters after the family appliance.
2. Aubree — from #156 to #408 (−252). The "-ee" ending wave (Aubree, Bailee, Marlee) is receding; the parents picking variant spellings have moved on to other vowel sounds.
3. Mckenzie — from #281 to #493 (−212). All the Mc- and Mac- prefixed surname-names are sliding together.
4. Brooklynn — from #262 to #468 (−206). The double-N spelling is fading faster than plain Brooklyn.
5. Alyssa — from #199 to #399 (−200). A 1990s/2000s mainstay continues its long graceful descent.
6. Raegan — from #259 to #458 (−199). Reagan/Raegan spelled either way is sliding; the Raegan variant is sliding faster.
7. Cali — from #296 to #495 (−199). Short geography names rose hard in the 2010s and are now picking the next destinations.
8. Taylor — from #162 to #353 (−191). One of the great cross-gender surname-names of the '90s, still trending down despite the cultural megastar attached to it.
9. Trinity — from #225 to #407 (−182). Virtue and religious names ran hot in the 2000s and are now cooling.
10. Finley — from #201 to #365 (−164). Finley peaked around 2018–2020 for girls and is now drifting; the boys' Finley is holding steadier.

What's the pattern?

Three themes run through the list:

• Variant spellings are losing ground. Aubree, Mckenzie, Brooklynn, Raegan — four of ten. The 2010s appetite for distinguishing your child via spelling has clearly cooled.
• 2000s-era word and virtue names are sliding. Trinity, Cali, Taylor — names that anchored that era are giving way to longer, softer, more vintage choices (Charlotte, Eleanor, Hazel — see our vintage comeback post).
• A few have clear external causes. Alexa is the clearest cultural collision in modern name data. Once Amazon launched the device in 2014, the name's slide accelerated; the post-2020 nosedive is the long tail of that decision.

Want the other side? See the ten rising-fastest girl names of 2024.

Data: U.S. Social Security Administration 2020 and 2024 releases. Only names ranked inside the top 300 in 2020 were considered.