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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#385
Erica Erica is a girl's name with two independent sources: the feminine of Eric, meaning eternal ruler, and the botanical Latin name of heather.
18,901 in the 2000s
#386
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
18,793 in the 2000s
#387
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
18,736 in the 2000s
#388
Clayton Clayton means the settlement on clay, from an English place name that describes the ground it stood on.
18,735 in the 2000s
#389
Angelica Angelica is both a name and a plant, and the plant is named for the angel — a medieval legend has one reveal it as a cure during plague, which is why it was grown in monastery gardens.
18,716 in the 2000s
#390
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
18,567 in the 2000s
#391
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
18,364 in the 2000s
#392
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
18,042 in the 2000s
#393
Chelsea Chelsea is a girl's name from a London district whose name means chalk landing place — a wharf where chalk was unloaded from boats on the Thames.
18,042 in the 2000s
#394
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
17,999 in the 2000s
#395
Alana Alana is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
17,947 in the 2000s
#396
Dillon Dillon has two unrelated sources that English cannot separate — an Irish surname of uncertain meaning and the Welsh Dylan, a sea god from the Mabinogi.
17,898 in the 2000s
#397
Corey Corey is a boy's name from an Irish surname, generally given as dweller near a hollow.
17,882 in the 2000s
#398
Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.
17,864 in the 2000s
#399
Miles Miles is a boy's name of disputed origin, usually connected to the Latin miles, meaning soldier.
17,842 in the 2000s
#400
Liliana Liliana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily," an elaborated form of Lily from lilium.
17,641 in the 2000s
#401
Brittany Brittany is a girl's name taken from the French region, which is named for British settlers who crossed the Channel in late antiquity.
17,597 in the 2000s
#402
Camila Camila is a girl's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Camilla.
17,580 in the 2000s
#403
Makenzie Makenzie means son of the handsome one, which is an odd fit for a name that is 99 percent female in our records — the Gaelic Mac is a patronymic, and it has not been reinterpreted.
17,565 in the 2000s
#404
Ty Ty has no source of its own — it shortens Tyler, Tyrone and Tyson, three names with nothing in common, so which one a given Ty belongs to cannot be read off the name.
17,321 in the 2000s
#405
Lilly Lilly is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the flower, from lilium.
17,295 in the 2000s
#406
Delaney Delaney names a river, not a challenger — the Irish behind it is the dark one of the Slaney, so the dark challenger gloss that appears everywhere online mistakes a place for a fight.
17,278 in the 2000s
#407
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
17,275 in the 2000s
#408
Harrison Harrison is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Harry."
17,268 in the 2000s
#409
Abby Abby means my father is joy, and France ranks it 322nd — ahead of Scotland at 359th, Ireland at 453rd and the United States at 731st, which is not where an English diminutive of a Hebrew name should lead.
17,261 in the 2000s
#410
Kayden Kayden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no settled origin.
17,254 in the 2000s
#411
Jazmin Jazmin respells a Persian word that traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, which is why the word is near-identical in a dozen unrelated languages.
17,223 in the 2000s
#412
Adrianna Adrianna means from Hadria, and the sea took its name from the town rather than the other way round — the Adriatic is called after a small Italian settlement that is now several miles inland.
17,195 in the 2000s
#413
Dawson Dawson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of David."
17,129 in the 2000s
#414
Karina Karina means pure or beloved depending on which parent it takes, and neither has a settled meaning — Catherine's Greek original was never derived, and the Latin route gives a different sense entirely.
17,090 in the 2000s
#415
Ellie Ellie is a girl's name that began as a short form of Eleanor, Ellen, and Elizabeth, and is now widely given as a name in its own right.
17,061 in the 2000s
#416
Mitchell Mitchell is a boy's name from a medieval English form of Michael, meaning who is like God — though a second and quite separate source exists from an old word simply meaning big.
17,040 in the 2000s
#417
Jasmin Jasmin names a flower whose own name is Persian, and it traveled the length of Eurasia — yasmin passed through Arabic into Europe with the plant itself, arriving as a word and a cutting together.
17,026 in the 2000s
#418
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
16,919 in the 2000s
#419
Julianna Julianna descends from a Roman family name whose meaning was never settled — downy-bearded and devoted to Jove are both proposed for Julius, and the family's own claim was descent from Venus.
16,906 in the 2000s
#420
Bella Bella is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "beautiful."
16,838 in the 2000s
#421
Erika Erika means ever-ruler, the feminine of Erik — and it is also the botanical name for heather, which is a separate Greek word that happens to match.
16,741 in the 2000s
#422
Carly Carly means free man, and the Germanic word named a free peasant rather than a lord — so a name that now reads as light and modern began at the bottom of the free classes.
16,709 in the 2000s
#423
Dustin Dustin is a boy's name from the Old Norse Thorstein, meaning Thor's stone — the dust in the spelling is pure coincidence.
16,587 in the 2000s
#424
Jace Jace is a boy's name that began as a short form of Jason, and so carries the meaning "healer," from the Greek iasthai, to heal.
16,578 in the 2000s
#425
Israel Israel means he wrestles with God, and it is a name given after a fight — Jacob receives it in Genesis having wrestled a stranger until dawn and refused to let go without a blessing.
16,535 in the 2000s
#426
Mckenna Mckenna means son of the fire god, and the name is 100 percent female in our records — the Mac is a literal patronymic and Cionaodh names a pre-Christian deity, neither of which has been softened.
16,398 in the 2000s
#427
Camryn
16,273 in the 2000s
#428
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
16,244 in the 2000s
#429
Karla Karla means free man, and the Germanic word named a free peasant — so a name that now reads as aristocratic began at the bottom of the free classes and rose to name emperors.
16,184 in the 2000s
#430
Calvin Calvin is a boy's name of French origin meaning "little bald one," from the Latin calvus, bald.
16,128 in the 2000s
#431
Kyla Kyla means a narrow strait if it comes from Kyle, and the Scottish word behind that names a specific kind of water — a channel between an island and the mainland, as at Kyle of Lochalsh.
16,085 in the 2000s
#432
Mariana Mariana names the deepest place on earth by a long chain — the Mariana Trench is called after the Mariana Islands, which were named for a Spanish queen, so the name reaches the sea floor through a monarch.
15,862 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.