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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#1,460Lucille Lucille is a girl's name from the Latin for light, given to children born at daybreak.3,212 in the 2000s
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#1,466Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.3,198 in the 2000s
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#1,470Milan Milan is a unisex name of Slavic origin meaning "gracious" or "dear," from the element mil.3,190 in the 2000s
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#1,473Donna Donna is a girl's name from the Italian word for a lady, a title used as a name.3,186 in the 2000s
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#1,486Mike Mike is a boy's name, the short form of Michael, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.3,120 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.