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

#882
Jeffery Jeffery is a boy's name whose first element is genuinely disputed, though the second means peace.
6,487 in the 2000s
#884
Rodney Rodney is a boy's name from an English place name, and its rise as a given name follows a single admiral — George Rodney, who broke the French line at the Saintes in 1782.
6,475 in the 2000s
#889
Dorian Dorian names a Greek people rather than a quality, and Oscar Wilde put it into use — The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared in 1890 and the name has never been separable from it since.
6,429 in the 2000s
#893
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
6,360 in the 2000s
#895
Yahir
6,337 in the 2000s
#896
Desmond Desmond means south Munster, and it is a territory rather than a person — Deas-Mhumhain named the earldom the Fitzgeralds held, and the name reaches modern use through the land.
6,337 in the 2000s
#898
Brent Brent means burned land, from ground cleared by fire — a place name recording a specific agricultural practice rather than a hill or a holy site, which are the two readings usually offered for it.
6,303 in the 2000s
#899
Melvin Melvin is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, and the gentle chieftain reading usually given for it is an invention — the source is a Norman family who took their name from Malleville in France.
6,296 in the 2000s
#902
Jon Jon is a boy's name meaning God is gracious, and it is both an English shortening of Jonathan and the standard Scandinavian and Catalan form of John — two routes to the same three letters.
6,265 in the 2000s
#904
Kelvin Kelvin is the only name on this site that is also an SI unit, and the order runs river to man to measurement — a Glasgow river gave a physicist his title, and the title was given to the scale of absolute temperature.
6,264 in the 2000s
#906
Beau Beau is a boy's name from the French beau, meaning handsome or beautiful.
6,261 in the 2000s
#908
Braylon
6,244 in the 2000s
#909
Jadon
6,207 in the 2000s
#911
Branden
6,200 in the 2000s
#920
Guillermo
6,100 in the 2000s
#924
Jayce Jayce is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Jason or a stretched form of Jay.
6,059 in the 2000s
#930
Kody
6,011 in the 2000s
#931
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
6,000 in the 2000s
#939
Conor Conor is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "lover of hounds," from the Irish Conchobhar.
5,949 in the 2000s
#940
Grady Grady means noble, and it comes from a byname rather than a rank — the Irish grádha describes someone held in esteem, which is a reputation earned rather than a title inherited.
5,948 in the 2000s
#942
Quinton
5,917 in the 2000s
#945
Jamal
5,898 in the 2000s
#946
Jamari
5,890 in the 2000s
#947
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
5,883 in the 2000s
#948
Khalil Khalil is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "friend" — specifically a close and trusted one.
5,879 in the 2000s
#950
Jameson Jameson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of James."
5,876 in the 2000s
#951
Rene Rene is a name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
5,866 in the 2000s
#952
Mekhi
5,851 in the 2000s
#953
Sam Sam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has heard," a short form of Samuel.
5,848 in the 2000s
#956
Reed Reed is a boy's name of English origin meaning "red" — a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
5,800 in the 2000s
#958
Davion
5,788 in the 2000s
#961
Demetrius
5,777 in the 2000s
#962
Bobby Bobby is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
5,767 in the 2000s
#968
Nehemiah Nehemiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord comforts".
5,718 in the 2000s
#969
Nathanael Nathanael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has given," and it is the same name as Nathaniel with the spelling closer to the Greek.
5,712 in the 2000s
#972
Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
5,703 in the 2000s
#973
Nasir
5,682 in the 2000s
#975
Brendon
5,660 in the 2000s
#978
Terrance Terrance respells Terrence, and the name descends from a Roman playwright born enslaved in North Africa — Terence was freed by his owner and his Latin became a school text for centuries.
5,646 in the 2000s
#982
Solomon Solomon means peace, and it charts in all seven markets we track — the same Hebrew shalom behind the Arabic Suleiman, so one name covers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions at once.
5,631 in the 2000s
#983
Frederick Frederick is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
5,630 in the 2000s
#984
Trevon
5,620 in the 2000s
#988
Felipe
5,588 in the 2000s
#989
Jaydon
5,583 in the 2000s
#990
Roy Roy is a boy's name with two independent sources — the Gaelic ruadh, meaning red-haired, and the French roi, meaning king.
5,581 in the 2000s
#994
Everett Everett is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a wild boar," from eber, boar, and hard, brave or hardy.
5,556 in the 2000s
#997
Craig Craig is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for a rock or crag, and one of the few names that is a plain landscape noun rather than a compound.
5,543 in the 2000s
#998
Bruce Bruce is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and Scotland's most famous king carried it as an import — the Bruces came from Normandy, not from Scotland.
5,536 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.