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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#193
Autumn Autumn is a girl's name taken from the English word for the season, which comes through French from the Latin autumnus.
38,610 in the 2000s
#194
Jocelyn Jocelyn began as a man's name for a Germanic tribe — the Gauts — and turned female in twentieth-century America. About 90 percent of the births in our records are now female.
38,484 in the 2000s
#195
Nevaeh Nevaeh is a girl's name coined in the United States, and it is "heaven" spelled backwards.
38,374 in the 2000s
#196
Jared Jared is a boy's name from Hebrew meaning descent, borne by the father of Enoch — the one man in Genesis who does not die but is taken.
38,130 in the 2000s
#197
Ariana Ariana is a girl's name of Greek origin, from Ariadne — the Cretan princess who gave Theseus the thread to escape the labyrinth.
38,073 in the 2000s
#198
Arianna Arianna is a girl's name, the Italian form of Ariadne, from a Greek name meaning most holy.
37,880 in the 2000s
#199
Jeremy Jeremy is a boy's name, the medieval English form of Jeremiah, from a Hebrew name generally read as God will exalt.
37,580 in the 2000s
#200
Brooklyn Brooklyn is a girl's name taken from the New York borough, whose name comes from the Dutch village of Breukelen.
37,514 in the 2000s
#201
Caden Caden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no documented origin.
37,328 in the 2000s
#202
Mark Mark is a boy's name of Latin origin, most likely meaning "of Mars," borne by the evangelist who wrote the earliest gospel.
37,326 in the 2000s
#203
Jada Jada appears once in the Hebrew Bible as a man's name, in a genealogy in Chronicles — the modern American name is effectively a separate creation that happens to match it.
37,239 in the 2000s
#204
Ashton Ashton is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree settlement."
37,231 in the 2000s
#205
Aaliyah Aaliyah is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "exalted" or "sublime," the feminine of Ali.
36,424 in the 2000s
#206
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female in our records, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
36,376 in the 2000s
#207
Garrett Garrett means spear-strength or spear-rule, and it descends from two different Germanic names that medieval English speakers could no longer tell apart.
36,304 in the 2000s
#208
Amber Amber is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "ambergris."
36,287 in the 2000s
#209
Isabel Isabel is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
36,125 in the 2000s
#210
Danielle Danielle is a girl's name, the French feminine of Daniel, from a Hebrew name meaning God is my judge.
35,753 in the 2000s
#211
Mariah Mariah shows the sharpest single-artist effect in our data.
35,740 in the 2000s
#212
Marcus Marcus is a boy's name of Latin origin most likely meaning "of Mars," and it was one of only about eighteen first names Roman men used.
35,740 in the 2000s
#213
Kaden Kaden is a modern American coinage rather than an inherited name — it belongs to the rhyming set with Aiden, Jaden and Brayden, and the Arabic and Welsh origins offered for it were attached afterwards.
35,392 in the 2000s
#214
Vincent Vincent is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conquering," from vincere, to conquer.
35,334 in the 2000s
#215
Melanie Melanie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark."
35,322 in the 2000s
#216
Kaleb Kaleb respells Caleb, and the Hebrew reads as dog — which was not an insult but a claim of loyalty, since Caleb is one of only two spies who trusted the report on Canaan.
34,860 in the 2000s
#217
Brady Brady means descendant of Brádach, an Irish byname whose own meaning is not settled — spirited, large-chested and broad-eyed are all proposed, and none is established.
34,781 in the 2000s
#218
Sierra Sierra means a mountain range, and the Spanish word is literally a saw — ranges were named for the jagged sawtooth profile they cut against the sky.
34,593 in the 2000s
#219
Colton Colton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "coal town" or "Cola's settlement," from a place name.
34,303 in the 2000s
#220
Erin Erin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "Ireland."
34,196 in the 2000s
#221
Kenneth Kenneth is a boy's name anglicizing two separate Gaelic names, one meaning born of fire and one meaning handsome.
34,155 in the 2000s
#222
Joel Joel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin that joins two names for God, and the prophet's book supplied the line quoted at Pentecost.
33,800 in the 2000s
#223
Oscar Oscar is a boy's name with two competing origins: the Irish os, deer, plus cara, friend, giving "deer lover," or the Old Norse Ásgeirr, meaning "god's spear."
33,635 in the 2000s
#224
Josiah Josiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh supports" or "Yahweh heals," from Yoshiyahu.
33,411 in the 2000s
#225
Molly Molly is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a pet form of Mary whose meaning has never been settled — the candidates are "bitter" and "beloved."
33,330 in the 2000s
#226
Amelia Amelia is a girl's name most often explained as a blend of two older names: the Germanic Amalia, meaning "work" or "industrious," and the Latin Emilia, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
33,329 in the 2000s
#227
Jorge Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of George, meaning farmer.
33,093 in the 2000s
#228
Cooper Cooper is a boy's name of English origin meaning "barrel maker."
33,083 in the 2000s
#229
Isabelle Isabelle is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath."
32,891 in the 2000s
#230
Melissa Melissa is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bee," and it was the title of the priestesses who served Demeter.
32,697 in the 2000s
#231
Madelyn Madelyn is a girl's name and a modern American respelling of Madeline, which descends from Magdalene — meaning "of Magdala," a town on the Sea of Galilee.
32,653 in the 2000s
#232
Tanner Tanner names one of the most unpleasant medieval trades — tanneries used urine and dog feces to cure hides, and were forced to the downwind edge of every town by law as well as by smell.
32,409 in the 2000s
#233
Jacqueline Jacqueline is a girl's name, the French feminine of Jacques, and it inherits the meaning supplanter from Jacob.
32,197 in the 2000s
#234
Shelby Shelby is a girl's name from an English place name of Norse formation meaning a willow farm.
32,145 in the 2000s
#235
Marissa Marissa is usually explained as of the sea, but that reading comes from the Latin stella maris — a title of the Virgin built on a mistranslation of Miriam that scholars abandoned centuries ago.
32,111 in the 2000s
#236
Leslie Leslie is a Scottish place name turned surname turned given name, and it has crossed sexes: about 71 percent of the births in our records are female, though the name began firmly male and remains so in Britain.
32,022 in the 2000s
#237
Eduardo Eduardo means wealthy guardian, and it is one of very few Old English names that spread across the Catholic world — carried by Edward the Confessor's cult rather than by English settlement.
31,500 in the 2000s
#238
Angela Angela is a girl's name from the Greek for messenger, the word that also gives us angel.
31,403 in the 2000s
#239
Jade Jade is a girl's name from the gemstone, and its origin is unexpectedly medical: the Spanish called it piedra de la ijada, "stone of the flank," because it was believed to cure kidney and abdominal ailments.
31,278 in the 2000s
#240
Aubrey Aubrey is a name of Germanic origin meaning "elf ruler."
31,053 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.