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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#730Ryleigh 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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#784Itzel Itzel is a girl's name of Maya origin whose meaning is genuinely contested.7,652 in the 2000s
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#817Gloria Gloria is a girl's name that is simply the Latin word for glory, taken unchanged.7,266 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.