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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#2,370Ember Ember is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the word for a glowing coal, from æmyrge.1,610 in the 2000s
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#2,412Eloise Eloise is a girl's name of French origin, from the medieval Héloïse.1,573 in the 2000s
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#2,415Maxine Maxine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest," a feminine form of Maximus.1,570 in the 2000s
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#2,417Vivienne Vivienne is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive" or "full of life."1,569 in the 2000s
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#2,420Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.1,562 in the 2000s
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#2,449Julieta Julieta is a girl's name of Latin origin, the Spanish form of Juliet and a diminutive of Julia.1,545 in the 2000s
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#2,454Zahra Zahra is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "radiant" or "blossoming."1,540 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.