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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#865
Javon
6,685 in the 2000s
#866
Janiya
6,668 in the 2000s
#867
Zachariah Zachariah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has remembered."
6,641 in the 2000s
#868
Zachery
6,605 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
#876
Kristian
6,546 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
#878
Walker Walker is a boy's name of English origin meaning "a fuller of cloth."
6,510 in the 2000s
#879
Uriel Uriel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my light".
6,507 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
#882
Jeffery Jeffery is a boy's name whose first element is disputed, though the second means peace.
6,487 in the 2000s
#883
Kaelyn
6,484 in the 2000s
#884
Rodney Rodney is a boy's name from an English place name, and its rise as a given name follows a single admiral — George Rodney, who broke the French line at the Saintes in 1782.
6,475 in the 2000s
#885
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
6,472 in the 2000s
#886
Ainsley Ainsley is a name of English and Scottish use, given mainly to girls, from a surname meaning "solitary clearing."
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
#889
Dorian Dorian names a Greek people rather than a quality, and Oscar Wilde put it into use — The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared in 1890 and the name has never been separable from it since.
6,429 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
#893
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
6,360 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
#895
Yahir
6,337 in the 2000s
#896
Desmond Desmond means south Munster, and it is a territory rather than a person — Deas-Mhumhain named the earldom the Fitzgeralds held, and the name reaches modern use through the land.
6,337 in the 2000s
#897
Nataly
6,335 in the 2000s
#898
Brent Brent means burned land, from ground cleared by fire — a place name recording a specific agricultural practice rather than a hill or a holy site, which are the two readings usually offered for it.
6,303 in the 2000s
#899
Melvin Melvin is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, and the gentle chieftain reading usually given for it is an invention — the source is a Norman family who took their name from Malleville in France.
6,296 in the 2000s
#900
Kaleigh
6,292 in the 2000s
#901
Miracle Miracle is a girl's name taken from the English word, from Latin miraculum, "object of wonder."
6,266 in the 2000s
#902
Jon Jon is a boy's name meaning God is gracious, and it is both an English shortening of Jonathan and the standard Scandinavian and Catalan form of John — two routes to the same three letters.
6,265 in the 2000s
#903
Quincy Quincy is a unisex name of Norman French origin meaning "estate of Quintus".
6,264 in the 2000s
#904
Kelvin Kelvin is the only name on this site that is also an SI unit, and the order runs river to man to measurement — a Glasgow river gave a physicist his title, and the title was given to the scale of absolute temperature.
6,264 in the 2000s
#905
Addyson
6,264 in the 2000s
#906
Beau Beau is a boy's name from the French beau, meaning handsome or beautiful.
6,261 in the 2000s
#907
Ayanna
6,246 in the 2000s
#908
Braylon
6,244 in the 2000s
#909
Jadon
6,207 in the 2000s
#910
Tamia
6,203 in the 2000s
#911
Branden
6,200 in the 2000s
#912
Tania Tania descends from a Sabine name nobody can translate, and Shakespeare's Titania is a different word — that one comes from the Titans, so the two are unrelated despite constant confusion.
6,179 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.