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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Rankings for

#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
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
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
#845
Anya Anya is a girl's name of Russian origin, a diminutive of Anna.
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 genuinely 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
#881
Kaydence
6,493 in the 2000s 8 of 10 years
#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
#886
Ainsley
6,464 in the 2000s
#887
Aubree Aubree respells a name that began as elf-ruler — the Germanic Alberich names the dwarf king who guards the Nibelung hoard, and the same figure becomes Oberon in medieval French romance.
6,451 in the 2000s
#888
Raegan
6,444 in the 2000s
#890
Elaina Elaina is a girl's name of Greek origin, a variant of Helen.
6,420 in the 2000s
#891
Alyson
6,402 in the 2000s
#892
India
6,361 in the 2000s
#894
Emilia Emilia is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
6,348 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.