2000s Baby Names

25,258 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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#4
Emily Emily is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
224,161 in the 2000s
#12
Madison Madison is a name of English origin meaning "son of Maud," a medieval surname formed from the woman's name Maud plus -son.
194,212 in the 2000s
#14
Emma Emma is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "whole" or "universal," from the element ermen, found in older names such as Ermintrude.
181,711 in the 2000s
#23
Olivia Olivia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "olive tree," used as the feminine form of Oliver.
156,289 in the 2000s
#24
Hannah Hannah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," from Channah.
156,052 in the 2000s
#25
Abigail Abigail is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father's joy," from Avigayil.
151,185 in the 2000s
#26
Isabella Isabella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a Spanish and Italian form of Elizabeth that developed through Occitan and Old Spanish in the medieval period.
149,772 in the 2000s
#38
Samantha Samantha is a girl's name of uncertain origin, first recorded in America in the eighteenth century.
134,497 in the 2000s
#39
Elizabeth Elizabeth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," from Elisheva, the name of Aaron's wife in the Book of Exodus.
133,802 in the 2000s
#40
Ashley Ashley is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree clearing."
133,706 in the 2000s
#41
Sarah Sarah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
124,771 in the 2000s
#45
Sophia Sophia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," taken directly from the Greek word sophía.
119,402 in the 2000s
#48
Alyssa Alyssa is a girl's name from the flower alyssum, whose Greek name means without madness — the plant was believed to cure rabies.
114,673 in the 2000s
#51
Grace Grace is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "favor" or "blessing," from gratia.
110,905 in the 2000s
#56
Ava Ava is a girl's name with several proposed origins rather than one settled root.
104,692 in the 2000s
#59
Brianna Brianna is a girl's name, the feminine of Brian, whose Irish meaning has never been securely established.
99,978 in the 2000s
#61
Lauren Lauren is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," which became a women's name because a film studio invented one.
97,409 in the 2000s
#62
Chloe Chloe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "green shoot" or "young growth," referring to the first green of new crops.
96,697 in the 2000s
#64
Natalie Natalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "birthday of the Lord," from natalis.
95,246 in the 2000s
#66
Kayla Kayla is a girl's name with no established etymology, an American coinage of the 1950s that a soap opera turned into a top-name.
94,516 in the 2000s
#71
Jessica Jessica is a girl's name invented by Shakespeare for The Merchant of Venice in 1596.
90,851 in the 2000s
#73
Anna Anna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," the Greek and Latin form of Hannah.
90,470 in the 2000s
#79
Victoria Victoria is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "victory."
85,105 in the 2000s
#81
Mia Mia is a girl's name that began as a short form of longer names such as Maria and Amelia before becoming an independent given name in its own right.
83,651 in the 2000s
#82
Hailey Hailey is a girl's name of English origin meaning "hay clearing," from the Old English heg, hay, and leah, a woodland clearing.
82,128 in the 2000s
#85
Sydney Sydney is a name from a French place name — Saint-Denis, contracted by English speakers — and the Australian city was named after a man who bore it.
77,288 in the 2000s
#87
Jasmine Jasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from yasmin.
76,283 in the 2000s
#93
Julia Julia is a girl's name of Latin origin, the feminine of the Roman family name Julius.
70,994 in the 2000s
#94
Destiny Destiny is a word name meaning a fixed future, and its root is a verb about standing firm — the Latin destinare means to make fast or fix in place, so the idea is settled rather than foreseen.
69,993 in the 2000s
#97
Rachel Rachel is a girl's name from Hebrew meaning ewe, borne by Jacob's wife in Genesis.
68,521 in the 2000s
#99
Ella Ella is a girl's name with two distinct origins. The Norman French line derives from the Germanic element ali, meaning other or foreign, while a Hebrew line gives Ella as a word for a terebinth tree.
67,644 in the 2000s
#100
Kaitlyn Kaitlyn is a girl's name that respells the Irish Caitlín — which came into Irish from French, and into French from Greek.
67,021 in the 2000s
#101
Megan Megan is a girl's name, the Welsh pet form of Margaret, from a Greek word for pearl that reached Europe from Persian.
66,953 in the 2000s
#103
Katherine Katherine is a girl's name whose meaning is not settled.
65,475 in the 2000s
#104
Savannah Savannah is a girl's name of Taino origin meaning "treeless plain."
64,867 in the 2000s
#107
Jennifer Jennifer is a girl's name, the Cornish form of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, the name of King Arthur's queen.
63,694 in the 2000s
#113
Alexandra Alexandra is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," and it appears as a title of the goddess Hera before it was ever a personal name.
61,417 in the 2000s
#117
Allison Allison is a girl's name of Norman French origin, from Alis — the medieval form of Alice — plus a diminutive ending.
60,097 in the 2000s
#120
Haley Haley means hay meadow, from an English place name.
57,252 in the 2000s
#121
Maria Maria is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the Latin and Greek form of Miryam.
57,191 in the 2000s
#124
Kaylee Kaylee is an invented name with no single source — it fuses the Kay and Lee sounds that were already everywhere, and the meanings assigned to it afterwards were reverse-engineered.
56,543 in the 2000s
#125
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
56,263 in the 2000s
#128
Mackenzie Mackenzie means son of Coinneach, and the missing sound is the point — the Gaelic ends in a soft ch that English cannot spell, so the anglicized ending was written as a z that was never pronounced as one.
55,591 in the 2000s
#129
Addison Addison is a name of English origin meaning "son of Adam."
55,195 in the 2000s
#130
Makayla Makayla is one of a large family of respellings of Michaela, and the name underneath is a question — Michael means who is like God, expecting the answer nobody.
55,099 in the 2000s
#131
Brooke Brooke is a girl's name from the English word for a small stream.
54,797 in the 2000s
#132
Nicole Nicole is a girl's name, the French feminine of Nicholas, meaning victory of the people.
54,714 in the 2000s
#143
Stephanie Stephanie is a girl's name from the Greek for crown or garland, the feminine of Stephen.
50,072 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.