2000s Baby Names

3,602 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

#17
Ryan Ryan is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Riain.
179,147 in the 2000s
#22
Alexis Alexis is a Greek name meaning helper or defender, and it is split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
158,863 in the 2000s
#29
Jordan Jordan is a name from the river, whose Hebrew name Yarden means "to descend" or "flow down" — the Jordan drops sharply from its source to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's land surface.
144,371 in the 2000s
#44
Angel Angel is a name of Greek origin meaning "messenger," from angelos.
119,779 in the 2000s
#46
Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.
118,667 in the 2000s
#54
Cameron Cameron is a name of Scottish origin meaning "crooked nose," from the Gaelic cam, crooked, and sròn, nose.
107,805 in the 2000s
#78
Riley Riley is a name with two origins that converged. The Irish line comes from Ó Raghallaigh, an Anglicized surname, while the English line names a place meaning "rye clearing," from the Old English ryge and leah.
85,155 in the 2000s
#83
Morgan Morgan is a Welsh name meaning sea-born, and it charts in all seven markets within a range of just over three hundred places — one of the most evenly distributed names on this site.
78,594 in the 2000s
#116
Hayden Hayden is a name of Old English origin meaning "hay valley" or "hedged hill."
60,536 in the 2000s
#119
Avery Avery is a name of English origin meaning "elf counsel," derived from the Norman French form of the Germanic name Alberich.
57,562 in the 2000s
#138
Peyton Peyton is a name of Old English origin meaning "Pæga's settlement."
52,448 in the 2000s
#141
Blake Blake is a name of Old English origin with two opposite meanings.
51,447 in the 2000s
#186
Dakota Dakota means friend or ally in the Dakota language, and it is one of very few widely used names taken from an Indigenous North American language.
40,585 in the 2000s
#190
Parker Parker is a name of English origin meaning "park keeper."
39,897 in the 2000s
#206
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female on record, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
36,376 in the 2000s
#259
Courtney Courtney is a name from a Norman family whose surname is usually read as short nose, though a place-name derivation competes.
28,509 in the 2000s
#266
Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."
28,066 in the 2000s
#291
Kendall Kendall means the valley of the River Kent, and Scotland ranks it 309th — above the United States at 329th, which is unusual for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
26,058 in the 2000s
#305
Skyler Skyler is Dutch and means a scholar — it respells Schuyler, a surname carried by one of New York's founding families, and it has nothing to do with the sky despite the spelling.
24,260 in the 2000s
#309
Devon Devon is the English county, named for the Dumnonii — a Celtic people whose own name may mean the deep ones, possibly referring to mining.
24,094 in the 2000s
#322
Kelly Kelly is a name from the Irish surname Ó Ceallaigh, borne almost entirely by men for most of its history and now 86 percent female on record.
23,158 in the 2000s
#344
Casey Casey is a name of Irish origin meaning "vigilant" or "watchful."
21,382 in the 2000s
#358
Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
20,760 in the 2000s
#360
Jamie Jamie is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a Scottish diminutive of James meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel."
20,653 in the 2000s
#362
Reese Reese is a name of Welsh origin meaning "ardour" or "enthusiasm."
20,262 in the 2000s
#384
Drew Drew shortens Andrew, meaning manly, and there is a second unrelated Drew from a Germanic word for a ghost or phantom.
18,916 in the 2000s
#396
Dillon Dillon has two unrelated sources that English cannot separate — an Irish surname of uncertain meaning and the Welsh Dylan, a sea god from the Mabinogi.
17,898 in the 2000s
#427
Camryn Camryn is a unisex name, used mostly for American girls, and it's a modern spelling of Cameron.
16,273 in the 2000s
#440
Quinn Quinn is a name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn."
15,531 in the 2000s
#464
Guadalupe Guadalupe is half Arabic and half Latin — wadi, a valley or river, joined to a word for a wolf.
14,566 in the 2000s
#470
Shannon Shannon is a name from Ireland's longest river, and it is 86 percent female on record.
14,390 in the 2000s
#501
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
13,326 in the 2000s
#503
Amari Amari is a name with several competing origins: the Yoruba for "strength," the Arabic ʿāmir meaning "prosperous," and the Hebrew amar, "to say" — and reference works disagree because all three are genuine.
13,212 in the 2000s
#511
Chandler Chandler means a candle maker, and the trade left a grander word behind — the same French root gives chandelier, so the humblest medieval occupation names the most ornate fitting in the house.
12,968 in the 2000s
#515
Diamond
12,914 in the 2000s
#520
Justice
12,747 in the 2000s
#543
Kamryn
12,059 in the 2000s
#548
London London is a girls' name in America and barely used in England — 81 percent of recorded births are female, it ranks 431st in the United States, and 3,355th in the country containing the city it names.
11,985 in the 2000s
#553
Eden Eden is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "delight" or "pleasure," from the garden of Genesis.
11,807 in the 2000s
#557
Rylan Rylan has no documented source, and the little king gloss repeated for it is unsupported — the likeliest reading is rye land, an English place name, but even that is not established.
11,765 in the 2000s
#564
Jadyn
11,504 in the 2000s
#571
Sawyer Sawyer is a name of English origin meaning "one who saws wood."
11,344 in the 2000s
#573
Jessie Jessie is a name that arrives from two unrelated directions — the Scottish pet form of Janet, and a feminine of the Hebrew Jesse.
11,278 in the 2000s
#575
Cadence
11,264 in the 2000s
#580
Sidney Sidney is a name of Old English origin meaning "wide meadow."
11,130 in the 2000s
#582
Charlie Charlie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
11,077 in the 2000s
#601
Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.
10,681 in the 2000s
#603
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
10,667 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.