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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#731Ryleigh Ryleigh is a girl's name of English origin, a modern respelling of Riley.8,416 in the 2000s
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#743Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.8,226 in the 2000s
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#753Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.8,108 in the 2000s
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#754Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."8,090 in the 2000s
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#772Presley Presley is a unisex name of English origin meaning "priest's meadow".7,797 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.