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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Rankings for

#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
#623
Ali Ali is a name of Arabic origin meaning "exalted" or "high."
10,164 in the 2000s
#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 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
#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
#680
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 Adan is a boy's name and the Spanish form of Adam, written Adán, from the Hebrew adamah, "earth."
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 — 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
#730
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
#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

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.