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

#913
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
#914
Alanna Alanna is a girl's name usually given as the feminine of Alan, a Breton name whose own meaning is not established.
6,175 in the 2000s
#915
Athena Athena is a girl's name from the Greek goddess of wisdom, warfare and craft.
6,169 in the 2000s
#916
Carla Carla is a girl's name meaning free man, the Italian and Spanish feminine of Carlo.
6,167 in the 2000s
#917
Kristin Kristin is a girl's name meaning a follower of Christ, and it is the smaller of a pair — Kristen holds 222,720 recorded births to its 181,344, and both charted only ever in America.
6,166 in the 2000s
#918
Marie Marie is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the French form of Mary, and the largest name in our entire dataset with more than 2.8 million births on record.
6,149 in the 2000s
#919
Armani Armani is a unisex name of Italian origin, a surname meaning "son of Armanno" — a Germanic name built from elements for army and man.
6,133 in the 2000s
#920
Guillermo
6,100 in the 2000s
#921
Destinee
6,099 in the 2000s
#922
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
6,097 in the 2000s
#923
Willow Willow is a girl's name of English origin naming the tree, from the Old English welig.
6,076 in the 2000s
#924
Jayce Jayce is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Jason or a stretched form of Jay.
6,059 in the 2000s
#925
Haleigh
6,046 in the 2000s
#926
Cara Cara is a girl's name with two independent sources: the Italian cara, meaning "dear" or "beloved," and the Irish cara, meaning "friend."
6,034 in the 2000s
#927
Cheyanne
6,034 in the 2000s
#928
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
6,026 in the 2000s
#929
Alisha Alisha means noble, and it is British and Irish rather than American — England and Wales 376th, Ireland 381st and Northern Ireland 407th all rank it far above the United States at 1229th.
6,015 in the 2000s
#930
Kody
6,011 in the 2000s
#931
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
6,000 in the 2000s
#932
Alessandra
5,989 in the 2000s
#933
Amya
5,985 in the 2000s
#934
America
5,982 in the 2000s
#935
Madelynn
5,972 in the 2000s
#936
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
5,971 in the 2000s
#937
Lyla Lyla is a girl's name of disputed origin.
5,969 in the 2000s
#938
Samara Samara is a girl's name with several sources. In botany a samara is the winged seed of an elm or maple; it is also a Russian city on the Volga, an ancient Mesopotamian site, and a form of the Hebrew Shomron.
5,967 in the 2000s
#939
Conor Conor is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "lover of hounds," from the Irish Conchobhar.
5,949 in the 2000s
#940
Grady Grady means noble, and it comes from a byname rather than a rank — the Irish grádha describes someone held in esteem, which is a reputation earned rather than a title inherited.
5,948 in the 2000s
#941
Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.
5,924 in the 2000s
#942
Quinton
5,917 in the 2000s
#943
Renee Renee is a girl's name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
5,905 in the 2000s
#944
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
5,904 in the 2000s
#945
Jamal
5,898 in the 2000s
#946
Jamari
5,890 in the 2000s
#947
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
5,883 in the 2000s
#948
Khalil Khalil is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "friend" — specifically a close and trusted one.
5,879 in the 2000s
#949
Abbigail
5,879 in the 2000s
#950
Jameson Jameson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of James."
5,876 in the 2000s
#951
Rene Rene is a name from the Latin for reborn, given at baptism to mark spiritual rebirth.
5,866 in the 2000s
#952
Mekhi
5,851 in the 2000s
#953
Sam Sam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has heard," a short form of Samuel.
5,848 in the 2000s
#954
River River is a name taken from the English word, which comes through Anglo-Norman from the Latin riparius, meaning "of the riverbank."
5,843 in the 2000s
#955
Aileen Aileen means hazel, most likely, and the shining gloss usually given for it comes from confusion with Helen — the Norman Aveline is the likelier parent, and it has nothing to do with light.
5,821 in the 2000s
#956
Reed Reed is a boy's name of English origin meaning "red" — a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
5,800 in the 2000s
#957
Joey Joey is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will increase."
5,789 in the 2000s
#958
Davion
5,788 in the 2000s
#959
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of the births in our records are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
5,783 in the 2000s
#960
Darian
5,778 in the 2000s

What made a 2000s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 2000 and 2009, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "2000s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.

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.