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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Rankings for

#801
Hailee
7,433 in the 2000s
#804
Hallie Hallie is a girl's name with more than one line.
7,379 in the 2000s
#806
Skye Skye is a girl's name taken from the Hebridean island, whose own name is disputed between a Gaelic root meaning "winged" and a Norse one meaning "cloud."
7,360 in the 2000s
#809
Whitney Whitney was already climbing before Whitney Houston, and the debut album accelerated it rather than starting it — 1,632 births in 1982, 2,488 by 1984, then 4,068 in 1985 and 9,781 in 1986.
7,328 in the 2000s
#816
Alexus
7,269 in the 2000s
#817
Gloria Gloria is a girl's name that is simply the Latin word for glory, taken unchanged.
7,266 in the 2000s
#818
Harmony Harmony began as a carpentry term — the Greek harmonia is a fitting-together, from harmos, a joint, so the word described how timbers met long before it described how notes sound.
7,247 in the 2000s
#819
Linda Linda is a girl's name usually read as beautiful in Spanish or as a Germanic element meaning soft or tender.
7,220 in the 2000s
#820
Madyson
7,217 in the 2000s
#825
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
7,128 in the 2000s
#826
Elisabeth Elisabeth is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, and the s-spelling is the older one — it follows the Greek and German, while the English z is a later change.
7,127 in the 2000s
#827
Harper Harper is a name of English origin meaning "harp player."
7,127 in the 2000s
#828
Halle Halle is a girl's name with a Norse and Germanic background, usually given as rock or as a form of a name meaning army ruler.
7,122 in the 2000s
#830
Lisa Lisa is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a short form of Elisabeth that became a name in its own right.
7,037 in the 2000s
#831
Francesca Francesca is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "free one" or "Frenchwoman."
7,019 in the 2000s
#832
Noelle Noelle is a girl's name of French origin meaning "Christmas."
6,987 in the 2000s
#833
Viviana Viviana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive".
6,972 in the 2000s
#835
Cristina Cristina shares its root with Kirsten in this same group, but arrived by a southern route — Italian and Spanish rather than Scandinavian, from the Greek word for a follower of the anointed one.
6,964 in the 2000s
#837
Fernanda
6,959 in the 2000s
#838
Madilyn Madilyn is a girl's name meaning "woman of Magdala."
6,936 in the 2000s
#839
Deanna Deanna was popularized by a stage name — the actress born Edna Mae Durbin was renamed Deanna Durbin in 1936, and American births rose from almost nothing to a peak of 4,331 in 1970.
6,934 in the 2000s
#840
Khloe Khloe means green shoot, and the K is doing no work etymologically — it respells Chloe, whose Greek khloe names the first growth of a crop rather than a color or a plant.
6,926 in the 2000s
#843
Shania
6,905 in the 2000s
#844
Anya Anya is a girl's name of Russian origin, a diminutive of Anna.
6,877 in the 2000s
#845
Raquel Raquel means ewe, and the animal is the point — Rachel is a shepherd in Genesis, met at a well while watering her father's flock, so the name and the story match exactly.
6,877 in the 2000s
#847
Tiana
6,857 in the 2000s
#849
Tabitha Tabitha means gazelle, and it is Aramaic rather than Hebrew — one of a small set of New Testament names from the everyday language of first-century Judaea.
6,843 in the 2000s
#851
Krystal Krystal means ice, and the Greeks believed rock crystal was water frozen so hard it could never melt — which is why the same word names both the mineral and the frost.
6,823 in the 2000s
#852
Ximena Ximena is a girl's name of Spanish origin whose meaning is unresolved.
6,801 in the 2000s
#853
Johanna Johanna means God is gracious, and it heads one of the largest name families in Europe — Jane, Joan, Jean, Janet, Sinead and Siobhan are all the same name arriving by different national routes.
6,801 in the 2000s
#855
Janelle Janelle is an American elaboration rather than an inherited name — Jane with a French-looking ending attached, built in the twentieth century by the same habit that produced Danielle, Rochelle and Michelle.
6,778 in the 2000s
#857
Teresa Teresa is a girl's name whose meaning is uncertain, though harvester is the usual reading.
6,755 in the 2000s
#859
Carolyn Carolyn is a girl's name, an English elaboration of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.
6,737 in the 2000s
#860
Taryn
6,736 in the 2000s
#861
Virginia Virginia is a girl's name from a Roman family name, and the American state was named before the name became common in America — both honoring Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen.
6,704 in the 2000s
#864
Jenny Jenny began as a pet form of Jane, not Jennifer — the two attached to each other only in the twentieth century, and Jennifer was almost unknown outside Cornwall before 1900.
6,686 in the 2000s
#866
Janiya
6,668 in the 2000s
#869
Kaitlynn
6,603 in the 2000s
#870
Brielle Brielle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength."
6,589 in the 2000s
#871
Estrella
6,587 in the 2000s
#872
Ashanti
6,584 in the 2000s
#873
Macie Macie is a girl's name of Norman French origin, a respelling of Macy.
6,578 in the 2000s
#874
Paulina
6,562 in the 2000s
#875
Jaqueline
6,560 in the 2000s
#877
Sarai Sarai is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the name Abraham's wife carried before God renamed her Sarah.
6,516 in the 2000s
#880
Ashleigh Ashleigh peaked far higher in England than in America — 1,133 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US high of 1,717, in a country with roughly a fifth of the population.
6,503 in the 2000s
#883
Kaelyn
6,484 in the 2000s
#885
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
6,472 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.