2000s Baby Names

16,768 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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#393
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
#394
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
17,999 in the 2000s
#397
Corey Corey is a boy's name from an Irish surname, generally given as dweller near a hollow.
17,882 in the 2000s
#398
Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.
17,864 in the 2000s
#399
Miles Miles is a boy's name of disputed origin, usually connected to the Latin miles, meaning soldier.
17,842 in the 2000s
#404
Ty Ty has no source of its own — it shortens Tyler, Tyrone and Tyson, three names with nothing in common, so which one a given Ty belongs to cannot be read off the name.
17,321 in the 2000s
#408
Harrison Harrison is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Harry."
17,268 in the 2000s
#410
Kayden Kayden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no settled origin.
17,254 in the 2000s
#413
Dawson Dawson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of David."
17,129 in the 2000s
#416
Mitchell Mitchell is a boy's name from a medieval English form of Michael, meaning who is like God — though a second and quite separate source exists from an old word simply meaning big.
17,040 in the 2000s
#423
Dustin Dustin is a boy's name from the Old Norse Thorstein, meaning Thor's stone — the dust in the spelling is pure coincidence.
16,587 in the 2000s
#424
Jace Jace is a boy's name that began as a short form of Jason, and so carries the meaning "healer," from the Greek iasthai, to heal.
16,578 in the 2000s
#425
Israel Israel means he wrestles with God, and it is a name given after a fight — Jacob receives it in Genesis having wrestled a stranger until dawn and refused to let go without a blessing.
16,535 in the 2000s
#428
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
16,244 in the 2000s
#430
Calvin Calvin is a boy's name of French origin meaning "little bald one," from the Latin calvus, bald.
16,128 in the 2000s
#433
Jaxon Jaxon is a boy's name and a modern respelling of Jackson, meaning "son of Jack."
15,839 in the 2000s
#434
Grayson Grayson is a boy's name of English origin usually explained as "son of the grieve," a grieve being a steward or bailiff who managed an estate.
15,730 in the 2000s
#438
Pedro Pedro means stone, and the name records a nickname Jesus gave — Simon was renamed Cephas in Aramaic, which Greek translated as Petros, so the pun on rock survives through three languages.
15,633 in the 2000s
#442
Camden Camden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "enclosed valley."
15,493 in the 2000s
#443
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
15,401 in the 2000s
#445
Cayden Cayden charts in all seven markets and has no etymology at all — it belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, alongside Kaiden which is written up separately here.
15,371 in the 2000s
#447
Dominick Dominick means of the Lord, and it was given to children born on a Sunday — dies dominica is the Lord's day, and the name records the day of birth rather than a hope for the child.
15,344 in the 2000s
#448
Keegan Keegan descends from a pagan god, not a small flame — Aodh was the Irish deity of fire and the sun, and the diminutive gloss softens a name that originally invoked him.
15,335 in the 2000s
#451
Rafael Rafael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God heals."
15,093 in the 2000s
#452
Zane Zane peaked in 2018, later than almost any name in this group, and it entered American use as a surname — Zane Grey's westerns carried a family name that traces back to the founder of Zanesville, Ohio.
14,950 in the 2000s
#453
Brett Brett means a Breton — someone from Brittany, which is named for the Britons who fled there when the Anglo-Saxons arrived.
14,937 in the 2000s
#454
Troy Troy is a boy's name with two independent sources — an Irish surname meaning foot soldier, and the ancient city.
14,831 in the 2000s
#455
Malik Malik means king, and the Arabic distinguishes two words a single letter apart — malik is a king, mālik an owner, and one of God's names in the Qur'an is the second rather than the first.
14,815 in the 2000s
#456
Roman Roman is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "citizen of Rome," from Romanus.
14,774 in the 2000s
#457
Jakob
14,765 in the 2000s
#458
Griffin Griffin peaked in 2023, more recently than any other name in this group, and it is not named for the beast — the Welsh Gruffudd came first, and the resemblance to the griffin is coincidence.
14,723 in the 2000s
#461
Chance Chance means a falling, and the falling was dice — the Old French cheance describes how they land, from the Latin cadere, to fall, which also gives cadence, decay and accident.
14,686 in the 2000s
#462
Santiago Santiago is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning "Saint James."
14,637 in the 2000s
#466
Frank Frank is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frank."
14,480 in the 2000s
#468
Kai Kai is a name that exists independently in many unrelated languages.
14,393 in the 2000s
#469
Johnny Johnny is a boy's name, the pet form of John, meaning God is gracious.
14,390 in the 2000s
#473
Zion Zion is a name of Hebrew origin naming the hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city and the promised land itself.
14,346 in the 2000s
#474
Jaime Jaime is 41 percent female on record, one of the most divided names on this site — Spanish reads it as James, and English hears it as a spelling of Jamie.
14,296 in the 2000s
#476
Braxton Braxton is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "Bracc's settlement."
14,212 in the 2000s
#483
Kameron Kameron means crooked nose, and it is one of very few clan names built on a face — the Scottish cam sròn described a feature, and an entire Highland kindred took it.
13,951 in the 2000s
#485
Trey Trey means three, and it is a card and dice word — the trey is the three-spot, which is why the name attached itself to sons who were the third to carry a family name.
13,902 in the 2000s
#486
Alec Alec means defender of men, and France ranks it 536th — above the United States at 979th, which is not where a Scottish short form of a Greek name would be expected to lead.
13,781 in the 2000s
#487
Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.
13,722 in the 2000s
#488
Ronald Ronald is a boy's name from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, meaning ruler's counsel, brought to Scotland by Norse settlement.
13,645 in the 2000s
#490
Marcos Marcos means dedicated to Mars, and the god behind it was not only a war god — Mars presided over agriculture too, which is coherent once you notice that farming and fighting were the same men's seasonal work.
13,604 in the 2000s
#491
Gerardo Gerardo means brave with a spear, and both halves are weapons talk — the Germanic joins the word for a spear to one meaning hardy, which is the same ger that hides inside garlic.
13,599 in the 2000s
#492
Drake
13,562 in the 2000s
#494
Derrick Derrick means ruler of the people, and the crane is named after a man — Thomas Derrick, an Elizabethan hangman whose gallows design was distinctive enough that his name became the word for it.
13,556 in the 2000s

What Made a 2000s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 2000 and 2009. A name's position here is how many of them were.

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.