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

#627
Lorenzo Lorenzo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Laurentum," the Italian and Spanish form of Laurence.
10,089 in the 2000s
#632
Aden
9,982 in the 2000s
#634
Maddox Maddox means son of Madoc, and Madoc is the prince who supposedly reached America in 1170 — a legend the Tudors found useful, since it would have given England a claim predating Spain's.
9,942 in the 2000s
#637
Xander Xander is a boy's name, a short form of Alexander meaning defender of men.
9,921 in the 2000s
#639
Tony Tony is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, whose meaning has never been established.
9,915 in the 2000s
#642
Arturo Arturo means bear, probably — but Arthur is one of the genuinely unsolved names, with a Celtic word for bear and a Roman family name both proposed and neither established.
9,888 in the 2000s
#646
Jude Jude is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "praised" or "thanks."
9,795 in the 2000s
#648
Curtis Curtis is a boy's name from a Norman French nickname meaning courteous, and it is one of very few names that describes manners rather than birth, appearance or trade.
9,655 in the 2000s
#655
Jonathon Jonathon respells Jonathan, and the original names a gift — Yahweh has given, borne in scripture by the friend whose bond with David the text describes in terms it uses nowhere else.
9,583 in the 2000s
#669
Kobe Kobe is a boy's name best known from the Japanese city, whose name means "door of the gods".
9,253 in the 2000s
#672
Reece Reece means ardor, and its England and Wales peak of 1,828 in 1996 is far larger than anything the United States has recorded — a Welsh name that reached America late and never matched its home scale.
9,184 in the 2000s
#674
Larry Larry is a boy's name, the short form of Lawrence, from a Roman name meaning of Laurentum.
9,139 in the 2000s
#675
Cory Cory has at least three unrelated origins — a Norse island name, an Irish surname and a Greek word for a maiden — and English cannot distinguish them.
9,137 in the 2000s
#676
Albert Albert is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble and bright."
9,115 in the 2000s
#681
Amir Amir is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "prince" or "commander," from amara, to command.
9,036 in the 2000s
#682
Nickolas
9,017 in the 2000s
#686
Alfredo Alfredo means counsel of the elves, and the elves were taken seriously — Anglo-Saxon naming treated them as beings whose advice was worth invoking, not as decoration for a children's story.
8,953 in the 2000s
#687
Ismael Ismael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will hear," the son of Abraham and Hagar and a prophet in Islam.
8,932 in the 2000s
#688
Darren Darren has no established origin — it appears in twentieth-century America with no traceable parent, and the Irish and Gaelic derivations offered for it were attached after the fact.
8,920 in the 2000s
#690
Lincoln Lincoln is a boy's name from the English city, whose name combines the Brittonic lindo, meaning pool, with the Latin colonia, a Roman settlement for retired soldiers.
8,914 in the 2000s
#692
Ezra Ezra is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "help."
8,891 in the 2000s
#694
Gary Gary is a boy's name that reached the charts by an unusually traceable route: a surname became a steel town in Indiana, the town's name was given to an actor, and the actor made it a first name.
8,879 in the 2000s
#696
Adan
8,856 in the 2000s
#699
Marc Marc is a boy's name from a Roman name probably meaning dedicated to Mars, the god of war, and it is the source of the month of March.
8,829 in the 2000s
#706
Jayson
8,714 in the 2000s
#708
Damon Damon means one who tames, and the story attached to it is about friendship — Damon and Pythias each offered to die in the other's place, which persuaded a tyrant to release them both.
8,698 in the 2000s
#712
Douglas Douglas is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic for dark water, originally a river and then a powerful border family.
8,667 in the 2000s
#713
Esteban Esteban is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "crown," the Spanish form of Stephen, whose bearer was the first Christian martyr.
8,659 in the 2000s
#716
Maximus Maximus was a Roman cognomen meaning the greatest, and it charts in all seven markets we track — England and Wales ranks it 219th, above the United States, which is not where a Latin superlative usually leads.
8,618 in the 2000s
#721
Brayan
8,567 in the 2000s
#722
Braeden
8,549 in the 2000s
#724
Chad Chad is a boy's name from a seventh-century English saint, and it has since become an American internet stereotype and, separately, the name of a country and a disputed ballot.
8,522 in the 2000s
#726
Bryant Bryant means noble or high, and the t is a French accident — Norman scribes added it to the Irish Brian, so the surname carries a letter the original name never had.
8,507 in the 2000s
#729
Quentin Quentin is a boy's name meaning fifth — a Roman birth-order name, given to a fifth child or one born in the fifth month.
8,417 in the 2000s
#731
Moises
8,416 in the 2000s
#732
Abel Abel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "breath" or "vapour."
8,380 in the 2000s
#733
Elliot Elliot is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
8,346 in the 2000s
#734
Arthur Arthur is a boy's name of disputed origin.
8,342 in the 2000s
#738
Zander Zander is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Alexander meaning "defender of men".
8,267 in the 2000s
#740
Ricky Ricky is a boy's name, the pet form of Richard or Ricardo, meaning strong ruler.
8,251 in the 2000s
#741
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
8,242 in the 2000s
#742
Marvin Marvin is a boy's name from the Welsh Merfyn, and the sea friend reading usually given for it is not supported — the Welsh elements point to marrow and eminent instead.
8,236 in the 2000s
#744
Joe Joe is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," a short form of Joseph that has become the English word for an ordinary person.
8,223 in the 2000s
#746
Keaton
8,197 in the 2000s
#748
Julius Julius means downy-bearded, and the family claimed descent from Venus — the Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is the genealogy Virgil wrote the Aeneid to dignify.
8,190 in the 2000s
#749
Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".
8,184 in the 2000s
#750
Ramon Ramon means protecting counsel, and both halves are Germanic — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, so a name that reads as thoroughly Spanish is Gothic underneath, like Fernando and Alonzo.
8,142 in the 2000s
#751
Walter Walter is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning ruler of the army.
8,133 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.