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

#577
Eleanor Eleanor is a girl's name that traces back to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the twelfth-century queen of France and later England, whose own name, Aliénor, is widely explained as "the other Aenor," distinguishing her from her mother, also named Aenor.
11,192 in the 2000s
#578
Tatiana Tatiana descends from a Roman family name of Sabine origin, and Shakespeare's fairy queen is a different word — Titania comes from the Titans, so the two are unrelated despite constant confusion.
11,157 in the 2000s
#579
Myles Myles is a boy's name and a variant spelling of Miles, whose origin is disputed.
11,140 in the 2000s
#580
Sidney Sidney is a name of Old English origin meaning "wide meadow."
11,130 in the 2000s
#581
Ezekiel Ezekiel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens," from Yechezkel.
11,124 in the 2000s
#582
Charlie Charlie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
11,077 in the 2000s
#583
Carolina Carolina means free man, and two American states carry it — both Carolinas are named for Charles I in Latin, so a Germanic word for a peasant ended up on the map through a king.
11,073 in the 2000s
#584
Raven Raven means the bird, and the bird was a war omen before it was a goth accessory — Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry lists the raven with the wolf and the eagle as the beasts that follow an army.
11,054 in the 2000s
#585
Gustavo Gustavo has no settled meaning, and the two accounts disagree on the language — a Norse staff of the Geats, or a Slavic name reshaped by Swedish, and neither has carried the field.
11,027 in the 2000s
#586
Lane Lane means a narrow way between hedges, and it is one of only two names in this sweep birth records mark as rising — it peaked in 2019 and stands at 250th in the United States on 1,495 births.
11,010 in the 2000s
#587
Zackary
11,004 in the 2000s
#588
Brenden
10,995 in the 2000s
#589
Nancy Nancy is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace."
10,984 in the 2000s
#590
Nora Nora is a girl's name that developed as a short form of longer names, chiefly Honora and Eleanor, and is now used independently.
10,927 in the 2000s
#591
Callie Callie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful."
10,916 in the 2000s
#592
Alberto Alberto means bright nobility, and both halves are compliments — the Germanic joins a word for noble descent to one meaning bright or famous, with nothing descriptive about the person at all.
10,878 in the 2000s
#593
Tristen
10,867 in the 2000s
#594
Anastasia Anastasia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "resurrection."
10,864 in the 2000s
#595
Melody Melody is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "song" or "singing," from melodia.
10,848 in the 2000s
#596
Ryder Ryder is a boy's name of English origin meaning "mounted warrior" or "messenger."
10,755 in the 2000s
#597
Eliana Eliana is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has answered" or "my God has answered."
10,715 in the 2000s
#598
Jerry Jerry is a name that serves as the short form of at least three unrelated names — Jeremiah from Hebrew, Gerald and Gerard from Germanic — so its meaning depends entirely on which one a family had in mind.
10,695 in the 2000s
#599
Josie Josie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Josephine, and so means "he will add," inherited from the Hebrew Yosef.
10,692 in the 2000s
#600
Sienna Sienna is a girl's name from the Italian city of Siena, and by way of it from the reddish-brown earth pigment mined nearby.
10,690 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
#602
Axel Axel is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin, a Danish form of the Hebrew Absalom, meaning "father of peace."
10,670 in the 2000s
#603
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
10,667 in the 2000s
#604
Serena Serena has the most evenly spread ranking on this site — Scotland 298th, Ireland 310th, the United States 325th, France 330th and England and Wales 381st, five markets inside 83 places of each other.
10,634 in the 2000s
#605
Danny Danny is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my judge," a diminutive of Daniel.
10,634 in the 2000s
#606
Madeleine Madeleine is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, and it is a place name rather than a description.
10,628 in the 2000s
#607
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
10,621 in the 2000s
#608
Mathew Mathew drops a t from Matthew, and the doubled t was never in the Hebrew — it entered through the Greek and Latin spellings, so the shorter form is arguably closer to the original.
10,620 in the 2000s
#609
Celeste Celeste is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "heavenly."
10,561 in the 2000s
#610
Theodore Theodore is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God," formed from theos, meaning god, and doron, meaning gift.
10,556 in the 2000s
#611
Lance Lance does not mean a spear.
10,547 in the 2000s
#612
Saul Saul means asked for, and the Hebrew Bible appears to have attached his wordplay to the wrong man — the puns on asking in the birth of Samuel fit Sha'ul far better than they fit Shemuel.
10,547 in the 2000s
#613
Julissa
10,528 in the 2000s
#614
Mateo Mateo is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of Yahweh," the Spanish form of Matthew.
10,490 in the 2000s
#615
Pablo Pablo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Spanish form of Paul.
10,487 in the 2000s
#616
Jimmy Jimmy is a boy's name, the pet form of James, meaning supplanter.
10,476 in the 2000s
#617
Ashlynn
10,474 in the 2000s
#618
Randy Randy is a boy's name, the short form of Randall or Randolph, meaning shield-wolf.
10,436 in the 2000s
#619
Marley Marley is a name of Old English origin meaning "boundary wood" or "pleasant meadow."
10,291 in the 2000s
#620
Louis Louis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
10,272 in the 2000s
#621
Emilio Emilio is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "rival" or "eager."
10,217 in the 2000s
#622
Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.
10,193 in the 2000s
#623
Ali Ali is a name of Arabic origin meaning "exalted" or "high."
10,164 in the 2000s
#624
Jayda
10,136 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.