2000s Baby Names
16,582 names were given to children in the United States between 2000 and 2009, ranked below by how many.
A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.
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#1,692Elian Elian is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God has answered."2,600 in the 2000s
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#1,699Clarence Clarence is a boy's name taken from an English dukedom, itself named for a Suffolk town.2,592 in the 2000s
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#1,706Dexter Dexter is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "right-handed" or "skilful."2,576 in the 2000s
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#1,764Beckett Beckett is a boy's name of Old English origin, most likely meaning "bee cottage" or "stream."2,452 in the 2000s
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#1,773Arjun Arjun is a boy's name of Sanskrit origin meaning "bright", "white" or "silver".2,433 in the 2000s
What made a 2000s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 2000 and 2009, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "2000s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade
A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.
Where to Go Next
Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.