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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Rankings for

#281
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
26,580 in the 2000s
#282
Nolan Nolan is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Nualláin.
26,467 in the 2000s
#284
Shane Shane is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," and it exists because English speakers wrote down how Ulster pronounced Seán.
26,432 in the 2000s
#286
Dalton Dalton means the settlement in the valley, and Northern Ireland ranks it 305th — above the United States at 448th, which is unexpected for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
26,313 in the 2000s
#289
Peter Peter is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "rock."
26,160 in the 2000s
#290
Damian Damian is a boy's name of Greek origin, from damao, meaning to tame or subdue.
26,063 in the 2000s
#293
Jeffrey Jeffrey is a boy's name from Germanic roots whose first element is genuinely disputed, though the second means peace.
25,956 in the 2000s
#294
Brendan Brendan is not Irish in origin — it comes from a Welsh word meaning a prince, borrowed into Irish, and its saint is credited with a transatlantic voyage six centuries before Columbus.
25,898 in the 2000s
#295
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
25,766 in the 2000s
#297
Fernando Fernando means bold journey, and it is Germanic rather than Spanish — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, where it became the royal name of Castile and Aragon and then traveled to the Americas.
25,257 in the 2000s
#298
Conner Conner means desiring hounds rather than loving them — the Irish joins a word for a hound or wolf to one meaning desire, and the softer lover of hounds gloss smooths over what was a warrior's name.
25,117 in the 2000s
#300
Andres Andres is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave."
24,832 in the 2000s
#301
Javier Javier means the new house, and it is Basque rather than Spanish — Saint Francis Xavier was named for his family's castle at Xabier, so the name is a place that became a surname and then a first name.
24,702 in the 2000s
#302
Shawn Shawn is a boy's name, the phonetic American respelling of the Irish Seán, which is itself the Irish form of John.
24,543 in the 2000s
#303
Giovanni Giovanni is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the Italian form of John.
24,443 in the 2000s
#307
Braden Braden means descendant of the salmon, and the fish is not decorative — the Salmon of Knowledge is the center of one of the best-known Irish stories, in which Fionn gains all wisdom by burning his thumb on it.
24,209 in the 2000s
#311
Jonah Jonah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "dove," from Yonah.
23,882 in the 2000s
#315
Bradley Bradley is a boy's name from an English place name meaning broad meadow.
23,757 in the 2000s
#317
Cesar Cesar is a boy's name from the Roman family name Caesar, whose own meaning the Romans could not agree on.
23,677 in the 2000s
#318
Emmanuel Emmanuel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is with us."
23,619 in the 2000s
#319
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
23,469 in the 2000s
#327
Edgar Edgar is a boy's name meaning wealthy spear, and it is one of very few Old English names still in wide use.
22,615 in the 2000s
#329
Mario Mario is a boy's name from a Roman family name of uncertain meaning, and the video game character was named after a real landlord — Mario Segale, who owned the warehouse Nintendo rented in Seattle.
22,474 in the 2000s
#330
Erik Erik is a boy's name meaning ever-ruler or sole ruler, from Old Norse.
22,449 in the 2000s
#335
Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.
22,139 in the 2000s
#339
Johnathan Johnathan is a misspelling that became a name — it inserts an h into Jonathan by confusion with John, and the two are different Hebrew names that only look related.
21,965 in the 2000s
#342
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
21,507 in the 2000s
#346
Jalen Jalen was invented for one child and spread from there — the usual account has a father building it from James and Leonard, and the calm and serenity meanings offered online are attached to that coinage.
21,363 in the 2000s
#349
Wesley Wesley is a boy's name of English origin meaning "western meadow," from the Old English west and leah.
21,325 in the 2000s
#352
Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a genuinely disputed origin.
20,976 in the 2000s
#353
Trenton Trenton means Trent's town, and the Trent is a man rather than the English river — William Trent bought the land in 1714, and the New Jersey city was named for him, not for the water.
20,936 in the 2000s
#354
Hector Hector is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "holding fast," borne by the Trojan prince who is the most sympathetic figure in the Iliad.
20,897 in the 2000s
#355
Malachi Malachi is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my messenger."
20,892 in the 2000s
#361
Raymond Raymond is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning counsel and protection.
20,486 in the 2000s
#365
Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.
20,097 in the 2000s
#367
Colby Colby is a boy's name of Norse origin meaning "Koli's farm," from villages in the English Danelaw.
20,040 in the 2000s
#368
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
19,895 in the 2000s
#373
Elias Elias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God is Yahweh."
19,660 in the 2000s
#375
Leonardo Leonardo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a lion," from leo, lion, and hard, brave or hardy.
19,533 in the 2000s
#376
Sergio Sergio means servant, from a Roman family name that is probably Etruscan — and Virgil gave the Sergii a Trojan ancestor, which is the Aeneid doing genealogical work for Rome's aristocracy.
19,476 in the 2000s
#378
Donovan Donovan means dark brown, and the Irish surname behind it belonged to a king who backed the wrong side — the Uí Donnabháin lost their lands after opposing Brian Boru in the tenth century.
19,389 in the 2000s
#379
Bryson Bryson is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "son of Brice."
19,168 in the 2000s
#380
Marco Marco means dedicated to Mars, and it has the tightest seven-market spread on this site — the United States 370th, Ireland and England both 467th, Scotland 477th, Northern Ireland 501st and France 502nd, all inside 132 places.
19,152 in the 2000s
#386
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
18,793 in the 2000s
#388
Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.
18,735 in the 2000s
#390
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
18,567 in the 2000s
#391
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
18,364 in the 2000s
#392
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
18,042 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.