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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#1,114August 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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#1,136Amira Amira is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "princess" or "commander."4,635 in the 2000s
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#1,139Leland 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
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.