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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#529
Darius Darius means holding firm the good, and we know that because the king said so — the Behistun inscription has Darius the Great explain his own name and reign in three languages, carved on a cliff face.
12,472 in the 2000s
#530
Brock Brock means badger, and it is one of the oldest animal words in English — a Celtic borrowing that entered Old English before the Norman Conquest and survives in dialect to this day.
12,452 in the 2000s
#531
Landen
12,449 in the 2000s
#532
Selena Selena means the moon, and its curve has a shape we see nowhere else — American births went 918 in 1994 to 3,840 in 1995, the year Selena Quintanilla was killed on 31 March, then fell back to 2,296 the next year.
12,440 in the 2000s
#533
Brennan
12,394 in the 2000s
#534
Alaina Alaina descends from a name nobody can translate — the Breton Alan has been read as rock, handsome and deer, and none of the three has ever been established.
12,350 in the 2000s
#535
Lindsay Lindsay and Lindsey are the same place — a district of Lincolnshire that was effectively an island in fen.
12,333 in the 2000s
#536
Leo Leo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lion."
12,312 in the 2000s
#537
Piper Piper is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "pipe player."
12,295 in the 2000s
#538
Kyler Kyler has no agreed source, and the two accounts point in different directions — a Dutch occupational surname for an archer, or simply Kyle with an -er ending attached in America. It is on record from 1922, with almost all volume after 1995.
12,279 in the 2000s
#539
Kaiden Kaiden has no etymology, because it was invented — it is one of the -aiden rhyming names built in America in the 1990s, and the Arabic and Japanese origins asserted for it online are attached to a coinage rather than found in a source.
12,249 in the 2000s
#540
Katelynn
12,199 in the 2000s
#541
Heaven Heaven is a girl's name from the English word for paradise, from the Old English heofon.
12,097 in the 2000s
#542
Kira Kira has three unrelated sources — the Irish for dark, a Russian feminine of the Persian for lord, and a Japanese word for glittering — and nothing in the spelling tells you which one a given Kira belongs to.
12,096 in the 2000s
#543
Kamryn
12,059 in the 2000s
#544
Ciara Ciara is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "dark" or "black-haired," the feminine of Ciarán.
12,046 in the 2000s
#545
Donald Donald is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic Dòmhnall, meaning world ruler.
12,013 in the 2000s
#546
Fabian Fabian means bean grower, and the general who carried it gave English a word for winning by refusing to fight — Fabian tactics, and the Fabian Society that named itself after his patience.
12,003 in the 2000s
#547
Cecilia Cecilia is a girl's name of Latin origin from the Roman family name Caecilius, which derives from caecus, meaning blind.
11,989 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
#549
Aniyah Aniyah is a girl's name of disputed origin.
11,868 in the 2000s
#550
Kailey
11,846 in the 2000s
#551
Stella Stella is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "star."
11,843 in the 2000s
#552
Angelo Angelo means messenger, and it charts in all seven markets within a 365-place spread — the United States 304th, France 343rd, Northern Ireland 397th, Scotland 522nd, England and Wales 569th and Ireland 669th.
11,821 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
#554
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
11,801 in the 2000s
#555
Camille Camille is a unisex name of Latin origin, from a Roman word for a young attendant at religious ceremonies.
11,777 in the 2000s
#556
Kayleigh Kayleigh is far larger in England than its American figures suggest — 1,206 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US peak of 1,450, in a country with about a fifth of the population.
11,777 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
#558
Kaitlin Kaitlin reached English through Irish, not from it — Catherine went into Old French as Cateline, into Irish as Caitlín, and back out again respelled.
11,655 in the 2000s
#559
Lukas Lukas does not mean light, despite what most sources say — it means a man from Lucania, a region of southern Italy.
11,629 in the 2000s
#560
Holly Holly is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the tree, from holegn.
11,605 in the 2000s
#561
Allie Allie means noble, and it serves three different names at once — Alice, Allison and Alexandra all shorten to it, so which one a given Allie belongs to cannot be read off the name itself.
11,579 in the 2000s
#562
Emanuel Emanuel began as a sign rather than a name — Isaiah tells Ahaz that a child will be called God with us as proof of a prophecy, and the phrase became a personal name only afterward.
11,549 in the 2000s
#563
Brooklynn
11,510 in the 2000s
#564
Jadyn
11,504 in the 2000s
#565
Esther Esther is a girl's name usually connected to the Persian word for star, and possibly to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.
11,488 in the 2000s
#566
Tyson Tyson means son of the firebrand, and it began as an insult — the Old French tison named a hot-tempered man, so the surname records a reputation the family did not choose.
11,425 in the 2000s
#567
April April is a girl's name taken from the month, whose Latin name probably means to open — the month when buds open.
11,425 in the 2000s
#568
Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7,188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
11,412 in the 2000s
#569
Miriam Miriam is the origin of Mary, Maria, Marie, Maureen, Marion and Molly — the largest name family in Europe — and it still charts in all seven markets, with its top four inside 46 places of each other.
11,361 in the 2000s
#570
Alivia
11,359 in the 2000s
#571
Sawyer Sawyer is a name of English origin meaning "one who saws wood."
11,344 in the 2000s
#572
Asher Asher is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "happy" or "blessed."
11,320 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
#574
Asia
11,269 in the 2000s
#575
Cadence
11,264 in the 2000s
#576
Claudia Claudia means lame, and it comes from one of Rome's most powerful families.
11,225 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.