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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#2,113
Carlo
1,908 in the 2000s
#2,114
Earl Earl is a boy's name taken from the English noble title, and it is the only rank in the British peerage with a native English name rather than a French one.
1,906 in the 2000s
#2,115
Zayne Zayne is a boy's name with two unrelated sources and no agreement about which it descends from.
1,902 in the 2000s
#2,116
Joseline
1,902 in the 2000s
#2,117
Sheridan
1,900 in the 2000s
#2,118
Alaysia
1,900 in the 2000s
#2,119
Jarrod
1,900 in the 2000s
#2,120
Daryl Daryl completes a set of three — Darrell, Darryl and Daryl are one Norman place name split across three spellings, and all three appear in this group, carrying about 328,000 births between them.
1,897 in the 2000s
#2,121
Alyvia
1,896 in the 2000s
#2,122
Clifford Clifford is a boy's name from an English place name meaning a ford by a cliff — a river crossing below a steep bank.
1,895 in the 2000s
#2,123
Randi
1,895 in the 2000s
#2,124
Neha
1,890 in the 2000s
#2,125
Broderick
1,889 in the 2000s
#2,126
Hugh Hugh is a boy's name from a Germanic word for mind or spirit, brought to Britain by the Normans.
1,887 in the 2000s
#2,127
Denver Denver is a unisex name of English origin meaning "the Danes' crossing".
1,887 in the 2000s
#2,128
Ulysses
1,884 in the 2000s
#2,129
Turner
1,884 in the 2000s
#2,130
Lori Lori is a girl's name, a short form of Laura meaning laurel.
1,884 in the 2000s
#2,131
Michele Michele is a girl's name, the single-l spelling of Michelle, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
1,881 in the 2000s
#2,132
Maximo
1,880 in the 2000s
#2,133
Isaak
1,880 in the 2000s
#2,134
Lucian Lucian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
1,879 in the 2000s
#2,135
Madden
1,878 in the 2000s
#2,136
Rivka
1,878 in the 2000s
#2,137
Ethen
1,877 in the 2000s
#2,138
Rileigh
1,877 in the 2000s
#2,139
Emerald
1,876 in the 2000s
#2,140
Anisa
1,876 in the 2000s
#2,141
Brinley
1,876 in the 2000s
#2,142
Domenic
1,876 in the 2000s
#2,143
Zack Zack is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," a short form of Zachary.
1,872 in the 2000s
#2,144
Deonte
1,871 in the 2000s
#2,145
Kari Kari descends from the same unexplained Greek root as Kaitlin in this group, but by a Scandinavian route — through Karen and Katarina rather than through Irish, and the pure gloss is equally unproven on both paths.
1,871 in the 2000s
#2,146
Izabelle
1,871 in the 2000s
#2,147
Lisbeth
1,869 in the 2000s
#2,148
Constance Constance is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfastness," one of the abstract virtue names the early Church favored.
1,868 in the 2000s
#2,149
Rosalinda
1,867 in the 2000s
#2,150
Yandel
1,866 in the 2000s 9 of 10 years
#2,151
Deshaun
1,865 in the 2000s
#2,152
Andreas
1,864 in the 2000s
#2,153
Alycia
1,863 in the 2000s
#2,154
Cristobal
1,858 in the 2000s
#2,155
Fallon
1,856 in the 2000s
#2,156
Kendyl
1,854 in the 2000s
#2,157
Jarvis
1,854 in the 2000s
#2,158
Ivana
1,852 in the 2000s
#2,159
Darin
1,849 in the 2000s
#2,160
Vincenzo
1,848 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.