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

#886
Ainsley Ainsley is a name of English and Scottish use, given mainly to girls, from a surname meaning "solitary clearing."
6,464 in the 2000s
#887
Aubree Aubree respells a name that began as elf-ruler — the Germanic Alberich names the dwarf king who guards the Nibelung hoard, and the same figure becomes Oberon in medieval French romance.
6,451 in the 2000s
#888
Raegan
6,444 in the 2000s
#890
Elaina Elaina is a girl's name of Greek origin, a variant of Helen.
6,420 in the 2000s
#891
Alyson
6,402 in the 2000s
#892
India
6,361 in the 2000s
#894
Emilia Emilia is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
6,348 in the 2000s
#897
Nataly
6,335 in the 2000s
#900
Kaleigh
6,292 in the 2000s
#901
Miracle Miracle is a girl's name taken from the English word, from Latin miraculum, "object of wonder."
6,266 in the 2000s
#905
Addyson
6,264 in the 2000s
#907
Ayanna
6,246 in the 2000s
#910
Tamia
6,203 in the 2000s
#912
Tania Tania descends from a Sabine name nobody can translate, and Shakespeare's Titania is a different word — that one comes from the Titans, so the two are unrelated despite constant confusion.
6,179 in the 2000s
#913
Martha Martha is a girl's name of Aramaic origin meaning "lady" or "mistress of the house."
6,179 in the 2000s
#914
Alanna Alanna is a girl's name usually given as the feminine of Alan, a Breton name whose own meaning is not established.
6,175 in the 2000s
#915
Athena Athena is a girl's name from the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare and craft.
6,169 in the 2000s
#916
Carla Carla is a girl's name meaning free man, the Italian and Spanish feminine of Carlo.
6,167 in the 2000s
#917
Kristin Kristin is a girl's name meaning a follower of Christ, and it is the smaller of a pair — Kristen holds 222,720 recorded births to its 181,344, and both charted only ever in America.
6,166 in the 2000s
#918
Marie Marie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the French form of Mary, and the largest name in the birth records with more than 2.8 million births on record.
6,149 in the 2000s
#921
Destinee
6,099 in the 2000s
#922
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
6,097 in the 2000s
#923
Willow Willow is a girl's name of English origin naming the tree, from the Old English welig.
6,076 in the 2000s
#925
Haleigh
6,046 in the 2000s
#926
Cara Cara is a girl's name with two independent sources: the Italian cara, meaning "dear" or "beloved," and the Irish cara, meaning "friend."
6,034 in the 2000s
#927
Cheyanne
6,034 in the 2000s
#928
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
6,026 in the 2000s
#929
Alisha Alisha means noble, and it is British and Irish rather than American — England and Wales 376th, Ireland 381st and Northern Ireland 407th all rank it far above the United States at 1,229th.
6,015 in the 2000s
#932
Alessandra Alessandra is a girl's name meaning "defender of the people."
5,989 in the 2000s
#933
Amya
5,985 in the 2000s
#934
America
5,982 in the 2000s
#935
Madelynn
5,972 in the 2000s
#936
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
5,971 in the 2000s
#937
Lyla Lyla is a girl's name of disputed origin.
5,969 in the 2000s
#938
Samara Samara is a girl's name with several sources. In botany a samara is the winged seed of an elm or maple; it is also a Russian city on the Volga, an ancient Mesopotamian site, and a form of the Hebrew Shomron.
5,967 in the 2000s
#941
Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.
5,924 in the 2000s
#943
Renee Renee is a girl's name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
5,905 in the 2000s
#944
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
5,904 in the 2000s
#948
Abbigail
5,879 in the 2000s
#955
Aileen Aileen means hazel, most likely, and the shining gloss usually given for it comes from confusion with Helen — the Norman Aveline is the likelier parent, and it has nothing to do with light.
5,821 in the 2000s
#959
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of recorded births are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
5,783 in the 2000s
#963
Lana Lana is a girl's name with several competing origins — a Hawaiian word for calm, a Slavic short form of Svetlana, and a Hollywood invention of the 1930s.
5,766 in the 2000s
#965
Emilie Emilie is a girl's name, the French and Danish form of Latin Aemilia, usually given as rival.
5,742 in the 2000s
#966
Haven Haven is a name of Old English origin meaning "harbor" or "place of safety."
5,723 in the 2000s
#967
Adeline Adeline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.
5,719 in the 2000s
#970
Mckayla
5,710 in the 2000s
#971
Jimena
5,706 in the 2000s
#974
Penelope Penelope is a girl's name of Greek origin, borne in Homer's Odyssey by the wife of Odysseus, who held off suitors for twenty years by weaving a shroud she unpicked each night.
5,677 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.