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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Rankings for

#337
Genesis Genesis is a name taken from the Greek word genesis, meaning "origin" or "beginning."
22,070 in the 2000s
#338
Valerie Valerie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy," from the verb valere, meaning to be strong or to be well.
22,001 in the 2000s
#339
Johnathan Johnathan is a misspelling that became a name — it inserts an h into Jonathan by confusion with John, and the two are different Hebrew names that only look related.
21,965 in the 2000s
#340
Lindsey Lindsey is a girl's name from a district of Lincolnshire, and it originally meant an island — Lindsey was cut off by marsh and river, so the wetland reading and the island reading describe the same place.
21,811 in the 2000s
#341
Cassidy Cassidy means curly-haired, from an Irish surname — and Scotland ranks it 416th, above Northern Ireland at 464th and the United States at 541st, with Ireland itself back at 807th.
21,661 in the 2000s
#342
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
21,507 in the 2000s
#343
Zoey Zoey is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "life," a phonetic English respelling of Zoe.
21,502 in the 2000s
#344
Casey Casey is a name of Irish origin meaning "vigilant" or "watchful."
21,382 in the 2000s
#345
Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."
21,372 in the 2000s
#346
Jalen Jalen was invented for one child and spread from there — the usual account has a father building it from James and Leonard, and the calm and serenity meanings offered online are attached to that coinage.
21,363 in the 2000s
#347
Sadie Sadie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
21,345 in the 2000s
#348
Kylee Kylee has no agreed source, and it is not a feminine of Kyle — the -lee ending was attached to a Ky- opening in twentieth-century America, and any Gaelic meaning offered for it arrived afterward.
21,331 in the 2000s
#349
Wesley Wesley is a boy's name of English origin meaning "western meadow," from the Old English west and leah.
21,325 in the 2000s
#350
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
21,271 in the 2000s
#351
Jaylen Jaylen has no etymology, and the meanings offered for it contradict each other — healer, tranquil, devoted to Jove and supplanter all appear online, which is what happens when sources fill a blank.
21,030 in the 2000s
#352
Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a disputed origin.
20,976 in the 2000s
#353
Trenton Trenton means Trent's town, and the Trent is a man rather than the English river — William Trent bought the land in 1714, and the New Jersey city was named for him, not for the water.
20,936 in the 2000s
#354
Hector Hector is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "holding fast," borne by the Trojan prince who is the most sympathetic figure in the Iliad.
20,897 in the 2000s
#355
Malachi Malachi is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my messenger."
20,892 in the 2000s
#356
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never been established.
20,789 in the 2000s
#357
Jayla Jayla is a modern American coinage with no source, and its 2006 peak of 3,417 births is the largest single-year figure in this group — a name can be very popular and still have no history at all.
20,786 in the 2000s
#358
Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
20,760 in the 2000s
#359
Karen Karen is a girl's name, the Danish form of Katherine, and it inherits that name's unknown meaning.
20,712 in the 2000s
#360
Jamie Jamie is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a Scottish diminutive of James meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel."
20,653 in the 2000s
#361
Raymond Raymond is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning counsel and protection.
20,486 in the 2000s
#362
Reese Reese is a name of Welsh origin meaning "ardour" or "enthusiasm."
20,262 in the 2000s
#363
Tiffany Tiffany is a medieval name meaning manifestation of God, given to girls born at Epiphany — a old name that now reads as thoroughly modern.
20,210 in the 2000s
#364
Cassandra Cassandra is a girl's name from Greek myth, borne by a prophet cursed to see the future and never be believed.
20,149 in the 2000s
#365
Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.
20,097 in the 2000s
#366
Juliana Juliana means youthful, from the Roman family that claimed descent from Venus — and it is the name of a Dutch queen who abdicated in favor of her daughter, as her mother and daughter both did in turn.
20,067 in the 2000s
#367
Colby Colby is a boy's name of Norse origin meaning "Koli's farm," from villages in the English Danelaw.
20,040 in the 2000s
#368
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
19,895 in the 2000s
#369
Caitlyn Caitlyn is the third spelling of one name on this site, alongside Caitlin and Kaitlin — all descend from Catherine by way of Old French and Irish, and all three are large enough to hold separate pages.
19,794 in the 2000s
#370
Jaiden Jaiden belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, and the Hebrew meanings offered for it are attached to a coinage — thankful one and God will judge cannot both be right.
19,767 in the 2000s
#371
Giselle Giselle means a pledge, and the pledge was a person — the Germanic gisil named a hostage given as security for a treaty.
19,741 in the 2000s
#372
Serenity Serenity is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Latin serenus, meaning clear or unclouded.
19,676 in the 2000s
#373
Elias Elias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God is Yahweh."
19,660 in the 2000s
#374
Alondra Alondra means lark, and a Roman legion was named for the bird — Caesar raised the Legio V Alaudae in Gaul and it took the lark's name, probably from crested plumes on the helmets.
19,557 in the 2000s
#375
Leonardo Leonardo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a lion," from leo, lion, and hard, brave or hardy.
19,533 in the 2000s
#376
Sergio Sergio means servant, from a Roman family name that is probably Etruscan — and Virgil gave the Sergii a Trojan ancestor, which is the Aeneid doing genealogical work for Rome's aristocracy.
19,476 in the 2000s
#377
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
19,414 in the 2000s
#378
Donovan Donovan means dark brown, and the Irish surname behind it belonged to a king who backed the wrong side — the Uí Donnabháin lost their lands after opposing Brian Boru in the tenth century.
19,389 in the 2000s
#379
Bryson Bryson is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "son of Brice."
19,168 in the 2000s
#380
Marco Marco means dedicated to Mars, and it has the tightest seven-market spread on this site — the United States 370th, Ireland and England both 467th, Scotland 477th, Northern Ireland 501st and France 502nd, all inside 132 places.
19,152 in the 2000s
#381
Crystal Crystal is a girl's name from the Greek for ice, taken from the mineral rather than from any personal name.
18,956 in the 2000s
#382
Kiara Kiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear."
18,939 in the 2000s
#383
Bianca Bianca means white, and France ranks it 242nd — ahead of Ireland at 373rd, the United States at 501st, England and Wales at 548th and Scotland at 742nd.
18,934 in the 2000s
#384
Drew Drew shortens Andrew, meaning manly, and there is a second unrelated Drew from a Germanic word for a ghost or phantom.
18,916 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.