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 recorded births 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 on record, 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 on record.
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 recorded births 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

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.