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
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
#393
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
#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 on record — 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 on record — 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 Camryn is a unisex name, used mostly for American girls, and it's a modern spelling of Cameron.
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

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.