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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#1,112Rory Rory is a name of Irish and Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king."4,822 in the 2000s
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#1,115August August is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from augustus.4,792 in the 2000s
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#1,132Isaias Isaias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is salvation".4,664 in the 2000s
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#1,135Amira Amira is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander."4,635 in the 2000s
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#1,140Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.4,622 in the 2000s
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#1,141Karson Karson is a boy's name of Scottish and Irish origin, a respelling of Carson.4,617 in the 2000s
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#1,144Felicity Felicity is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "happiness" or "good fortune."4,574 in the 2000s
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#1,149Kingston Kingston is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "the king's settlement."4,560 in the 2000s
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#1,150Theresa Theresa is a girl's name of uncertain meaning, the German and English spelling of Teresa.4,555 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.