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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#1,889Bernard Bernard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave as a bear.2,252 in the 2000s
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#1,895Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets we track.2,238 in the 2000s
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#1,897Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".2,237 in the 2000s
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#1,899Charlee Charlee is a girl's name of Germanic origin, a respelling of Charlie.2,234 in the 2000s
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#1,901Soren Soren is a boy's name of Danish origin, from the Latin Severinus meaning "stern" or "serious".2,231 in the 2000s
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#1,903Gemma Gemma is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "gem" or "precious stone."2,223 in the 2000s
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#1,909Winter Winter is a girl's name taken from the season, from the Old English winter.2,213 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.