Born in the 2020s
People born in the 2020s are 0 to 6 years old in 2026 and belong to Generation Alpha.
| Born | Age in 2026 | President | Top song | Top movie | Best Picture | Top names (boy / girl) | Min. wage | Gas | Median new home |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | under 1 | Trump | – | – | – | – | $7.25 | $3.97 | $409,600 |
| 2025 | 0 or 1 | Biden / Trump | – | Ne Zha 2 | – | – | $7.25 | $3.26 | $415,400 |
| 2024 | 1 or 2 | Biden | Lose Control | Inside Out 2 | – | Liam / Olivia | $7.25 | $3.45 | $418,975 |
| 2023 | 2 or 3 | Biden | Last Night | Barbie | Oppenheimer | Liam / Olivia | $7.25 | $3.66 | $426,525 |
| 2022 | 3 or 4 | Biden | Heat Waves | Avatar: The Way of Water | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Liam / Olivia | $7.25 | $4.09 | $432,950 |
| 2021 | 4 or 5 | Trump / Biden | Levitating | Spider-Man: No Way Home | CODA | Liam / Olivia | $7.25 | $3.05 | $383,000 |
| 2020 | 5 or 6 | Trump | Blinding Lights | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Mugen Train | Nomadland | Liam / Olivia | $7.25 | $2.17 | $328,150 |
Most popular names of the 2020s
Combined counts of Social Security card applicants born 2020 to 2024.
| Rank | Boys | Girls |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam (103,878) | Olivia (82,208) |
| 2 | Noah (95,517) | Emma (72,819) |
| 3 | Oliver (74,268) | Charlotte (64,583) |
| 4 | Elijah (60,798) | Amelia (63,332) |
| 5 | James (60,474) | Sophia (62,120) |
| 6 | William (57,437) | Mia (57,007) |
| 7 | Henry (55,961) | Isabella (56,884) |
| 8 | Lucas (55,510) | Ava (55,555) |
Events that defined the 2020s
- January 26, 2020. A Sikorsky S-76B flying from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport crashes in Calabasas, 30 miles west of Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board, including five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna…
- January 31, 2020. The United Kingdom's membership within the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50, after 47 years of being a member state.
- July 13, 2020. After a five-day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera is recovered from Lake Piru in California, where she had drowned.
- December 2, 2020. Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
- December 21, 2020. A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
- February 18, 2021. Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
- February 21, 2022. In the prelude to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The…
- June 2, 2022. Following a request from Ankara, the United Nations officially changes the name of the Republic of Turkey in the organization from what was previously known as "Turkey" to "Türkiye".
- June 30, 2023. A Tajik citizen with ISIS connections, wanted in Tajikistan for murder and kidnapping, kills two people at Chișinău International Airport in Moldova, after being denied entry to the country.
- August 8, 2023. Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
- August 15, 2025. US president Donald Trump meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the first such summit since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- November 26, 2025. The Wang Fuk Court fire, a catastrophic fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 168 dead and 79 injured.