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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#1,181Amara Amara is a girl's name that exists independently in several languages.4,381 in the 2000s
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#1,217Paula Paula is a girl's name from the Latin for small or humble, the feminine of Paul.4,220 in the 2000s
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#1,230Elaine Elaine is a girl's name, the Old French form of Helen, whose meaning was never established.4,138 in the 2000s
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#1,233Edith Edith is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "prosperous in war."4,128 in the 2000s
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#1,244Rhiannon Rhiannon is a Welsh girl's name meaning "great queen," from the Celtic Rigantona.4,075 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.