2000s Baby Names

25,403 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

#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

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.