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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Rankings for

#1,995
Emelia
2,077 in the 2000s
#2,001
Kyndall
2,068 in the 2000s
#2,004
Giuliana
2,063 in the 2000s
#2,005
Janie Janie means God is gracious, shortened from Jane — and Jane is the English feminine of John, which makes it part of the largest name family in Europe by a considerable margin.
2,062 in the 2000s
#2,007
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
2,059 in the 2000s
#2,008
Bree
2,058 in the 2000s
#2,012
Addie Addie shortens Adelaide and Adeline alike, and both descend from the Germanic word for noble — the same adal that sits inside Alice, Allison and Albert.
2,051 in the 2000s
#2,013
Astrid Astrid is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "divinely beautiful".
2,050 in the 2000s
#2,015
Caitlynn
2,050 in the 2000s
#2,017
Rhea Rhea is a girl's name of Greek origin borne by the Titan who was mother of Zeus.
2,047 in the 2000s
#2,018
Lourdes
2,044 in the 2000s
#2,020
Kristine Kristine means a follower of Christ, and it is the fourth spelling of this name to appear in our gap band — after Kristin, Kristen and Kristina, all four of them American-led rather than Scandinavian.
2,041 in the 2000s
#2,022
Trisha Trisha is the fourth spelling of Patricia on this site, and England now ranks it above America — 1123rd in England and Wales against 3484th in the United States, having set its English peak this year.
2,036 in the 2000s
#2,023
Yvonne Yvonne is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.
2,035 in the 2000s
#2,024
Karma
2,034 in the 2000s
#2,027
Breonna
2,029 in the 2000s
#2,028
Yaretzi
2,028 in the 2000s
#2,029
Juana
2,026 in the 2000s
#2,030
Tayla
2,023 in the 2000s
#2,034
Ariella Ariella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lion of God."
2,021 in the 2000s
#2,039
Malaysia
2,010 in the 2000s
#2,041
Shawna Shawna means God is gracious, and it reaches English from Hebrew through four languages — Yochanan to Greek to Latin to Irish Seán, respelled Shawn and then given an American feminine ending.
2,009 in the 2000s
#2,042
Nylah
2,008 in the 2000s
#2,044
Katerina
2,005 in the 2000s
#2,045
Priscila
2,004 in the 2000s
#2,047
Anabella
2,002 in the 2000s
#2,048
Aliana
2,000 in the 2000s
#2,050
Kaycee
1,996 in the 2000s
#2,053
Norma Norma is a girl's name that appears to have been invented for an opera — Bellini's Norma of 1831 — and it was the birth name of Marilyn Monroe, who appears elsewhere in these pages under the name that replaced it.
1,992 in the 2000s
#2,057
Milagros
1,985 in the 2000s
#2,058
Sheyla
1,985 in the 2000s
#2,060
Malaya
1,980 in the 2000s
#2,062
Lidia
1,977 in the 2000s
#2,063
Amalia Amalia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "work" or "industrious," from the same root as Amelia and quite separate from the Latin for love.
1,977 in the 2000s
#2,064
Katia
1,975 in the 2000s
#2,069
Kayleen
1,966 in the 2000s
#2,070
Jolene
1,966 in the 2000s
#2,072
Harlee
1,965 in the 2000s
#2,073
Adamaris
1,962 in the 2000s
#2,079
Reanna
1,951 in the 2000s
#2,082
Juanita Juanita is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, the Spanish diminutive of Juana.
1,947 in the 2000s
#2,083
Keara
1,941 in the 2000s
#2,084
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
1,941 in the 2000s
#2,085
Rianna
1,939 in the 2000s
#2,086
Jeanette Jeanette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne.
1,937 in the 2000s
#2,087
Melisa
1,937 in the 2000s
#2,089
Brionna
1,936 in the 2000s
#2,090
Marcella Marcella means dedicated to Mars, and our data marks it reviving — 948th in the United States, 1386th in England and Wales, 1507th in Canada and 6569th in France, from a peak more than a century old.
1,934 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.