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

#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
#755
Dean Dean is a boy's name with two English origins.
8,048 in the 2000s
#757
Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish and Portuguese boy's name meaning "famous ruler."
8,032 in the 2000s
#759
Weston Weston is a boy's name of English origin meaning "western settlement," from the Old English west and tun, meaning an enclosure, farmstead, or village.
7,998 in the 2000s
#764
Salvador Salvador means savior, and it names a country and an ocean crossing — El Salvador is the only nation named directly for Christ, and San Salvador was the first island Columbus reached.
7,877 in the 2000s
#766
Nikolas
7,822 in the 2000s
#768
Ernesto Ernesto means serious in the deadly sense — the Germanic eornost named vigor in a fight, and the modern in earnest still keeps that force, meaning for real rather than in play.
7,807 in the 2000s
#769
Chris Chris shortens two unrelated Greek names — Christopher, which means bearing Christ, and Christine, which means belonging to Christ.
7,806 in the 2000s
#771
Russell Russell is a boy's name from a Norman nickname meaning little red, given to someone red-haired or ruddy.
7,802 in the 2000s
#774
Caiden Caiden is a boy's name with no established etymology, a modern respelling that reference sites trace to an Irish surname it probably has nothing to do with.
7,770 in the 2000s
#775
Kristopher Kristopher means Christ-bearer, and the legend built the meaning backward — a giant who carried a child across a river turned out to be carrying Christ, which is the story explaining the name.
7,762 in the 2000s
#778
Emiliano Emiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Italian form of Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
7,739 in the 2000s
#780
Camron
7,711 in the 2000s
#785
Graham Graham is a boy's name of English origin meaning "gravelly homestead," from Grantham in Lincolnshire.
7,652 in the 2000s
#786
Luca Luca is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Italian form of Luke.
7,631 in the 2000s
#787
Lawrence Lawrence is a boy's name meaning from Laurentum, an ancient Italian town linked to the laurel.
7,624 in the 2000s
#788
Felix Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lucky" or "fortunate."
7,621 in the 2000s
#790
Mauricio
7,597 in the 2000s
#791
Jaxson Jaxson is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Jackson.
7,563 in the 2000s
#797
Orlando Orlando is Roland with its consonants swapped — Italian moved the r, and the hero of the Song of Roland became the hero of Orlando Furioso, the same man under a rearranged name.
7,496 in the 2000s
#802
Bennett Bennett is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "blessed," the medieval English form of Benedict, from benedictus.
7,416 in the 2000s
#803
Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.
7,397 in the 2000s
#805
Holden Holden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "deep valley".
7,361 in the 2000s
#807
Easton Easton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "east settlement," from the Old English east and tun.
7,350 in the 2000s
#808
Micheal Micheal is a boy's name of Hebrew origin whose full form is a rhetorical question — who is like God?
7,335 in the 2000s
#810
Silas Silas is a boy's name generally understood as a Greek form of the Aramaic Seila, itself corresponding to the Hebrew Saul, meaning "asked for" or "prayed for."
7,326 in the 2000s
#811
Davis
7,324 in the 2000s
#812
Hugo Hugo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "mind" or "spirit."
7,324 in the 2000s
#813
Declan Declan is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is uncertain.
7,280 in the 2000s
#814
Jonas Jonas means dove, and the prophet's story turns on it — a man named for the bird sent out to find land is himself sent overseas, refuses, and is carried there inside a fish instead.
7,280 in the 2000s
#821
Carl Carl is a boy's name from the Germanic word for a free man, the same root as Charles.
7,198 in the 2000s
#822
Maurice Maurice is a boy's name from a Latin word meaning a Moor, originally describing someone from Roman North Africa. It is reviving, and it peaked in 1920 — a century-long gap of the same kind we see in Walter and Frances.
7,178 in the 2000s
#823
Shaun Shaun spells the Irish Seán phonetically for English readers, and it is the same name as John — the Irish took it from Norman French Jehan rather than directly from Latin, which is why it sounds nothing like John.
7,147 in the 2000s
#824
Eddie Eddie is a boy's name, the pet form of Edward or Edwin, meaning wealth.
7,143 in the 2000s
#829
Isiah
7,047 in the 2000s
#836
Gael Gael is a boy's name meaning a Gaelic person — a speaker of Irish, Scottish Gaelic or Manx.
6,963 in the 2000s
#841
Tate Tate is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning "cheerful."
6,918 in the 2000s
#842
Terry Terry is a name serving as a short form of Terence and of the Germanic Theodoric, two unrelated names, and it is mixed — about 18 percent of recorded births are female.
6,918 in the 2000s
#846
Deandre
6,872 in the 2000s
#848
Kade Kade is a boy's name of English origin, a modern respelling of Cade.
6,851 in the 2000s
#850
Dane
6,834 in the 2000s
#854
Issac
6,790 in the 2000s
#856
Tommy Tommy is a boy's name of Aramaic origin meaning "twin."
6,762 in the 2000s
#858
Reid Reid means red, and it is the Scots spelling of the color — a byname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, which is why it charts across six markets that all had Scots settlement.
6,745 in the 2000s
#862
Braydon
6,703 in the 2000s
#865
Javon
6,685 in the 2000s
#867
Zachariah Zachariah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has remembered."
6,641 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.