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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#499
Raul Raul means wolf counsel, and it is the same name as Ralph and Rudolph — one Norse compound that entered Spanish, English and German separately and ended up looking like three different names.
13,440 in the 2000s
#507
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
13,074 in the 2000s
#508
Trent Trent means the trespasser, and it is a warning rather than a description — the English river was named for its habit of flooding across its banks and cutting new channels.
13,068 in the 2000s
#514
Enrique Enrique means ruler of the estate, and the home in it is territorial rather than domestic — the Germanic element named the land a lord held, not the house he lived in.
12,946 in the 2000s
#518
Julio Julio means downy-bearded, and France ranks it 517th — above the United States at 641st, which is not where a Spanish form of a Roman family name would be expected to lead.
12,802 in the 2000s
#523
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is genuinely unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
12,624 in the 2000s
#524
Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.
12,551 in the 2000s
#525
Dante Dante means enduring, and it is a nickname that outlived its full form — the poet was christened Durante, and almost nobody has used that name since, while the short version became international.
12,529 in the 2000s
#526
Hudson Hudson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Hudde," a medieval pet form of Hugh.
12,522 in the 2000s
#527
Tucker Tucker is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "cloth fuller."
12,497 in the 2000s
#529
Darius Darius means holding firm the good, and we know that because the king said so — the Behistun inscription has Darius the Great explain his own name and reign in three languages, carved on a cliff face.
12,472 in the 2000s
#530
Brock Brock means badger, and it is one of the oldest animal words in English — a Celtic borrowing that entered Old English before the Norman Conquest and survives in dialect to this day.
12,452 in the 2000s
#531
Landen
12,449 in the 2000s
#533
Brennan
12,394 in the 2000s
#536
Leo Leo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lion."
12,312 in the 2000s
#538
Kyler Kyler has no agreed source, and the two accounts point in different directions — a Dutch occupational surname for an archer, or simply Kyle with an -er ending attached in America. Our records carry it from 1922, with almost all volume after 1995.
12,279 in the 2000s
#539
Kaiden Kaiden has no etymology, because it was invented — it is one of the -aiden rhyming names built in America in the 1990s, and the Arabic and Japanese origins asserted for it online are attached to a coinage rather than found in a source.
12,249 in the 2000s
#545
Donald Donald is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall, meaning world ruler.
12,013 in the 2000s
#546
Fabian Fabian means bean grower, and the general who carried it gave English a word for winning by refusing to fight — Fabian tactics, and the Fabian Society that named itself after his patience.
12,003 in the 2000s
#552
Angelo Angelo means messenger, and it charts in all seven markets we track within a 365-place spread — the United States 304th, France 343rd, Northern Ireland 397th, Scotland 522nd, England and Wales 569th and Ireland 669th.
11,821 in the 2000s
#554
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
11,801 in the 2000s
#559
Lukas Lukas does not mean light, despite what most sources say — it means a man from Lucania, a region of southern Italy.
11,629 in the 2000s
#562
Emanuel Emanuel began as a sign rather than a name — Isaiah tells Ahaz that a child will be called God with us as proof of a prophecy, and the phrase became a personal name only afterward.
11,549 in the 2000s
#566
Tyson Tyson means son of the firebrand, and it began as an insult — the Old French tison named a hot-tempered man, so the surname records a reputation the family did not choose.
11,425 in the 2000s
#572
Asher Asher is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "happy" or "blessed."
11,320 in the 2000s
#579
Myles Myles is a boy's name and a variant spelling of Miles, whose origin is disputed.
11,140 in the 2000s
#581
Ezekiel Ezekiel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens," from Yechezkel.
11,124 in the 2000s
#585
Gustavo Gustavo has no settled meaning, and the two accounts disagree on the language — a Norse staff of the Geats, or a Slavic name reshaped by Swedish, and neither has carried the field.
11,027 in the 2000s
#586
Lane Lane means a narrow way between hedges, and it is one of only two names in this sweep our data marks as rising — it peaked in 2019 and stands at 250th in the United States on 1,495 births.
11,010 in the 2000s
#587
Zackary
11,004 in the 2000s
#588
Brenden
10,995 in the 2000s
#592
Alberto Alberto means bright nobility, and both halves are compliments — the Germanic joins a word for noble descent to one meaning bright or famous, with nothing descriptive about the person at all.
10,878 in the 2000s
#596
Ryder Ryder is a boy's name of English origin meaning "mounted warrior" or "messenger."
10,755 in the 2000s
#598
Jerry Jerry is a name that serves as the short form of at least three unrelated names — Jeremiah from Hebrew, Gerald and Gerard from Germanic — so its meaning depends entirely on which one a family had in mind.
10,695 in the 2000s
#602
Axel Axel is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin, a Danish form of the Hebrew Absalom, meaning "father of peace."
10,670 in the 2000s
#604
Danny Danny is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my judge," a diminutive of Daniel.
10,634 in the 2000s
#607
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
10,621 in the 2000s
#608
Mathew Mathew drops a t from Matthew, and the doubled t was never in the Hebrew — it entered through the Greek and Latin spellings, so the shorter form is arguably closer to the original.
10,620 in the 2000s
#610
Theodore Theodore is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God," formed from theos, meaning god, and doron, meaning gift.
10,556 in the 2000s
#611
Saul Saul means asked for, and the Hebrew Bible appears to have attached his wordplay to the wrong man — the puns on asking in the birth of Samuel fit Sha'ul far better than they fit Shemuel.
10,547 in the 2000s
#612
Lance Lance does not mean a spear.
10,547 in the 2000s
#614
Mateo Mateo is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of Yahweh," the Spanish form of Matthew.
10,490 in the 2000s
#615
Pablo Pablo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Spanish form of Paul.
10,487 in the 2000s
#616
Jimmy Jimmy is a boy's name, the pet form of James, meaning supplanter.
10,476 in the 2000s
#618
Randy Randy is a boy's name, the short form of Randall or Randolph, meaning shield-wolf.
10,436 in the 2000s
#620
Louis Louis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
10,272 in the 2000s
#621
Emilio Emilio is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "rival" or "eager."
10,217 in the 2000s
#622
Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.
10,193 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.