Would you call your kid Corona? (Picture: Getty)

If you’ve conceived or welcomed a baby in 2020, you might want to give them a name that honours the strangeness of the year in which they came into existence.

To help you out, we’ve put together a big list of 2020-inspired baby names that will instantly let people in the future know that yes, your child was around for the year of coronavirus, lockdowns, and Brexit.

And if you don’t have a human baby, you can always use this list as inspo for the pet you adopted in lockdown.

Ready? Let’s go.

  • Andrex
  • Anti, like anti-masker
  • Asymptomatica
  • Barnard, to commemorate Dominic Cummings’ jaunt to test his eyesight
  • Beth, for anyone else who binged The Queen’s Gambit in 2020
  • Blursday
  • Bong, to honour Bong Joon-ho, whose film, Parasite, won an Oscar this year
  • Bubble
  • Cake. This year everything was cake, even your baby
  • Castle, same as above
  • Captain, the cooler alternative to celebrating Sir Captain Tom Moore by naming your baby ‘Tom’
  • Chris, in honour of Witty
  • Chrishell, for those who got through the year thanks to Selling Sunset
  • Conspiracy
  • Cora
  • Corina
  • Corona
  • Corrie
  • Covid
  • Covidia
  • Curve
  • Demi, short for pandemic
  • Diana, in honour of The Crown
  • Distancia
  • Dovid
  • Elbow, like elbow bump
  • Essential, said ‘ess-enn-shaaal’
  • Fauci
  • Furlo
  • Grogu
  • Hero
  • Immy, short for immunity
  • Isola, like isolation
  • Karen
  • Keyra. How many times did you refer to ‘key workers’ this year?
  • Kovyd
  • Loch, the nicer version of calling your child lockdown
  • Mandy, short for Mandalorian
  • Megan, as in Megan Thee Stallion, who gave us WAP this year
  • Messica, after Love In Blind’s most chaotic character
  • Nightingale
  • Nineteen
  • Nodeal
  • Ozlem, in honour of Uzlem Tureci, who helped to create the Covid-19 vaccine
  • Pande, short for pandemic
  • Pandemique, the fancier version of pandemic
  • Pandemitria
  • Pfizer
  • Purell
  • Quarantine
  • Quibi, gone but not forgotten
  • Quiz
  • Rona
  • Ronald
  • Ronan
  • Rule, like the rule of six
  • Sani, like hand sanitiser
  • Scott, but short for Scotch egg
  • Sharona
  • Soshal, like social distancing
  • Stock, like stockpiling
  • Substantial, like substantial meals
  • Super, like superspreader
  • Tenet, AKA the only film anyone saw in cinemas
  • Tier
  • Tiera
  • Tiger, because remember when we were all watching Tiger King?
  • Tina, like quarantina
  • Toomiter
  • Trace, like contact tracing and track and trace
  • Ugur, in honour of Ugur Sahin, who helped to create the Covid-19 vaccine
  • Unprecedented
  • Vaccina
  • Vanessa. Remember Vanessa Hudgens’ ‘yeah, people are gonna die?’. Honour that.
  • Vaxie
  • Vaxine
  • Venty, short for ventilator
  • Vera, after Vera Lynn, whose song saw a massive comeback
  • Vira
  • Virusa
  • Virys
  • Wuhan
  • Zoom

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