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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#333
Caitlin Caitlin is a girl's name of Greek origin, the Irish form of Katherine, and its English mispronunciation generated a whole family of new names.
22,315 in the 2000s
#334
Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.
22,238 in the 2000s
#336
Ruby Ruby is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the red gemstone, from ruber, meaning red.
22,086 in the 2000s
#337
Genesis Genesis is a name taken from the Greek word genesis, meaning "origin" or "beginning."
22,070 in the 2000s
#338
Valerie Valerie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.
22,001 in the 2000s
#340
Lindsey Lindsey is a girl's name from a district of Lincolnshire, and it originally meant an island — Lindsey was cut off by marsh and river, so the wetland reading and the island reading describe the same place.
21,811 in the 2000s
#341
Cassidy Cassidy means curly-haired, from an Irish surname — and Scotland ranks it 416th, above Northern Ireland at 464th and the United States at 541st, with Ireland itself back at 807th.
21,661 in the 2000s
#343
Zoey Zoey is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "life," a phonetic English respelling of Zoe.
21,502 in the 2000s
#345
Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."
21,372 in the 2000s
#347
Sadie Sadie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
21,345 in the 2000s
#348
Kylee Kylee has no agreed source, and it is not a feminine of Kyle — the -lee ending was attached to a Ky- opening in twentieth-century America, and any Gaelic meaning offered for it arrived afterward.
21,331 in the 2000s
#350
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
21,271 in the 2000s
#356
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never been established.
20,789 in the 2000s
#357
Jayla Jayla is a modern American coinage with no source, and its 2006 peak of 3,417 births is the largest single-year figure in this group — a name can be very popular and still have no history at all.
20,786 in the 2000s
#359
Karen Karen is a girl's name, the Danish form of Katherine, and it inherits that name's unknown meaning.
20,712 in the 2000s
#363
Tiffany Tiffany is a medieval name meaning manifestation of God, given to girls born at Epiphany — a old name that now reads as thoroughly modern.
20,210 in the 2000s
#364
Cassandra Cassandra is a girl's name from Greek myth, borne by a prophet cursed to see the future and never be believed.
20,149 in the 2000s
#366
Juliana Juliana means youthful, from the Roman family that claimed descent from Venus — and it is the name of a Dutch queen who abdicated in favor of her daughter, as her mother and daughter both did in turn.
20,067 in the 2000s
#369
Caitlyn Caitlyn is the third spelling of one name on this site, alongside Caitlin and Kaitlin — all descend from Catherine by way of Old French and Irish, and all three are large enough to hold separate pages.
19,794 in the 2000s
#371
Giselle Giselle means a pledge, and the pledge was a person — the Germanic gisil named a hostage given as security for a treaty.
19,741 in the 2000s
#372
Serenity Serenity is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Latin serenus, meaning clear or unclouded.
19,676 in the 2000s
#374
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
19,557 in the 2000s
#377
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
19,414 in the 2000s
#381
Crystal Crystal is a girl's name from the Greek for ice, taken from the mineral rather than from any personal name.
18,956 in the 2000s
#382
Kiara Kiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear."
18,939 in the 2000s
#383
Bianca Bianca means white, and France ranks it 242nd — ahead of Ireland at 373rd, the United States at 501st, England and Wales at 548th and Scotland at 742nd.
18,934 in the 2000s
#385
Erica Erica is a girl's name with two independent sources: the feminine of Eric, meaning eternal ruler, and the botanical Latin name of heather.
18,901 in the 2000s
#387
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
18,736 in the 2000s
#389
Angelica Angelica is both a name and a plant, and the plant is named for the angel — a medieval legend has one reveal it as a cure during plague, which is why it was grown in monastery gardens.
18,716 in the 2000s
#392
Chelsea Chelsea is a girl's name from a London district whose name means chalk landing place — a wharf where chalk was unloaded from boats on the Thames.
18,042 in the 2000s
#395
Alana Alana is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
17,947 in the 2000s
#400
Liliana Liliana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," an elaborated form of Lily from lilium.
17,641 in the 2000s
#401
Brittany Brittany is a girl's name taken from the French region, which is named for British settlers who crossed the Channel in late antiquity.
17,597 in the 2000s
#402
Camila Camila is a girl's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Camilla.
17,580 in the 2000s
#403
Makenzie Makenzie means son of the handsome one, which is an odd fit for a name that is 99 percent female on record — the Gaelic Mac is a patronymic, and it has not been reinterpreted.
17,565 in the 2000s
#405
Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.
17,295 in the 2000s
#406
Delaney Delaney names a river, not a challenger — the Irish behind it is the dark one of the Slaney, so the dark challenger gloss that appears everywhere online mistakes a place for a fight.
17,278 in the 2000s
#407
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
17,275 in the 2000s
#409
Abby Abby means my father is joy, and France ranks it 322nd — ahead of Scotland at 359th, Ireland at 453rd and the United States at 731st, which is not where an English diminutive of a Hebrew name should lead.
17,261 in the 2000s
#411
Jazmin Jazmin respells a Persian word that traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, which is why the word is near-identical in a dozen unrelated languages.
17,223 in the 2000s
#412
Adrianna Adrianna means from Hadria, and the sea took its name from the town rather than the other way round — the Adriatic is called after a small Italian settlement that is now several miles inland.
17,195 in the 2000s
#414
Karina Karina means pure or beloved depending on which parent it takes, and neither has a settled meaning — Catherine's Greek original was never derived, and the Latin route gives a different sense entirely.
17,090 in the 2000s
#415
Ellie Ellie is a girl's name that began as a short form of Eleanor, Ellen, and Elizabeth, and is now widely given as a name in its own right.
17,061 in the 2000s
#417
Jasmin Jasmin names a flower whose own name is Persian, and it traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, arriving as a word and a cutting together.
17,026 in the 2000s
#418
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
16,919 in the 2000s
#419
Julianna Julianna descends from a Roman family name whose meaning was never settled — downy-bearded and devoted to Jove are both proposed for Julius, and the family's own claim was descent from Venus.
16,906 in the 2000s
#420
Bella Bella is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "beautiful."
16,838 in the 2000s
#421
Erika Erika means ever-ruler, the feminine of Erik — and it is also the botanical name for heather, which is a separate Greek word that happens to match.
16,741 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.