2000s Baby Names

45,773 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

#481
Jazmine Jazmine is the fourth spelling of one Persian word on this site, alongside Jasmine, Jasmin and Jazmin — yasmin traveled with the plant itself, which is why it is near-identical across a dozen languages.
13,975 in the 2000s
#482
Hayley Hayley is a girl's name from an English place name meaning "hay clearing," and it became a girl's name because of one child actress.
13,967 in the 2000s
#483
Kameron Kameron means crooked nose, and it is one of very few clan names built on a face — the Scottish cam sròn described a feature, and an entire Highland kindred took it.
13,951 in the 2000s
#484
Josephine Josephine is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," the French feminine form of Joseph.
13,924 in the 2000s
#485
Trey Trey means three, and it is a card and dice word — the trey is the three-spot, which is why the name attached itself to sons who were the third to carry a family name.
13,902 in the 2000s
#486
Alec Alec means defender of men, and France ranks it 536th — above the United States at 979th, which is not where a Scottish short form of a Greek name would be expected to lead.
13,781 in the 2000s
#487
Cade Cade is a boy's name of English origin taken from a medieval surname.
13,722 in the 2000s
#488
Ronald Ronald is a boy's name from the Old Norse Rögnvaldr, meaning ruler's counsel, brought to Scotland by Norse settlement.
13,645 in the 2000s
#489
Fatima Fatima is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "one who weans" or "one who abstains."
13,624 in the 2000s
#490
Marcos Marcos means dedicated to Mars, and the god behind it was not only a war god — Mars presided over agriculture too, which is coherent once you notice that farming and fighting were the same men's seasonal work.
13,604 in the 2000s
#491
Gerardo Gerardo means brave with a spear, and both halves are weapons talk — the Germanic joins the word for a spear to one meaning hardy, which is the same ger that hides inside garlic.
13,599 in the 2000s
#492
Drake
13,562 in the 2000s
#493
Rebekah Rebekah is the spelling the King James Bible uses for the Old Testament, while the New Testament in the same book uses Rebecca — one translation, two spellings, and English inherited both.
13,556 in the 2000s
#494
Derrick Derrick means ruler of the people, and the crane is named after a man — Thomas Derrick, an Elizabethan hangman whose gallows design was distinctive enough that his name became the word for it.
13,556 in the 2000s
#495
Hanna Hanna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "favor" or "grace," and it is the source of Anne, Anna, Nancy and Hannah alike.
13,541 in the 2000s
#496
Kara Kara means beloved, from the Italian and Latin for dear — and a separate Norse Kara exists as the name of a valkyrie, so the same spelling covers two entirely unrelated names.
13,499 in the 2000s
#497
Phillip Phillip is a boy's name meaning lover of horses, the doubled-l spelling of Philip.
13,483 in the 2000s
#498
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
13,444 in the 2000s
#499
Raul Raul means wolf counsel, and it is the same name as Ralph and Rudolph — one Norse compound that entered Spanish, English and German separately and ended up looking like three different names.
13,440 in the 2000s
#500
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
13,333 in the 2000s
#501
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
13,326 in the 2000s
#502
Macy
13,262 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
#504
Tessa Tessa is a girl's name that grew out of Theresa and is now used independently.
13,185 in the 2000s
#505
Annabelle Annabelle is a girl's name of disputed origin.
13,184 in the 2000s
#506
Michaela Michaela is a question, not a statement — the Hebrew behind it asks who is like God, which was a rhetorical challenge rather than a claim, and the answer it expects is nobody.
13,092 in the 2000s
#507
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
13,074 in the 2000s
#508
Trent Trent means the trespasser, and it is a warning rather than a description — the English river was named for its habit of flooding across its banks and cutting new channels.
13,068 in the 2000s
#509
Savanna
13,046 in the 2000s
#510
Joanna Joanna means God is gracious, and it charts in all seven markets — the United States 306th, Ireland 367th, Scotland 395th, Northern Ireland 432nd, England and Wales 514th and France 721st.
12,994 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
#512
Lizbeth
12,965 in the 2000s
#513
Allyson Allyson descends from Alice by way of a French diminutive, and it is not Alice plus son — the ending is the Old French -on, the same one behind Marion, and nothing in it refers to a child.
12,952 in the 2000s
#514
Enrique Enrique means ruler of the estate, and the home in it is territorial rather than domestic — the Germanic element named the land a lord held, not the house he lived in.
12,946 in the 2000s
#515
Diamond
12,914 in the 2000s
#516
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
12,884 in the 2000s
#517
Desiree Desiree means desired, and it began as a Puritan virtue name rather than a French one — Desiderius was a late Roman Christian name for a longed-for child, and French inherited it before English did.
12,825 in the 2000s
#518
Julio Julio means downy-bearded, and France ranks it 517th — above the United States at 641st, which is not where a Spanish form of a Roman family name would be expected to lead.
12,802 in the 2000s
#519
Clara Clara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear," from clarus.
12,794 in the 2000s
#520
Justice
12,747 in the 2000s
#521
Kristen Kristen is a girl's name meaning a follower of Christ, and in Denmark it is a man's name — the Danish Kristen is masculine and Kirsten the feminine.
12,696 in the 2000s
#522
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
12,681 in the 2000s
#523
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
12,624 in the 2000s
#524
Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.
12,551 in the 2000s
#525
Dante Dante means enduring, and it is a nickname that outlived its full form — the poet was christened Durante, and almost nobody has used that name since, while the short version became international.
12,529 in the 2000s
#526
Hudson Hudson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Hudde," a medieval pet form of Hugh.
12,522 in the 2000s
#527
Tucker Tucker is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "cloth fuller."
12,497 in the 2000s
#528
Julie Julie is a girl's name, the French form of Julia, from a Roman family name of uncertain origin.
12,490 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.