2010s Baby Names

17,346 names were given to children in the United States between 2010 and 2019, 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

#1,193
Ahmad Ahmad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "most praiseworthy".
4,713 in the 2010s
#1,195
Orlando Orlando is Roland with its consonants swapped — Italian moved the r, and the hero of the Song of Roland became the hero of Orlando Furioso, the same man under a rearranged name.
4,710 in the 2010s
#1,198
Mohammed Mohammed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
4,689 in the 2010s
#1,199
Nixon
4,681 in the 2010s
#1,204
Maurice Maurice is a boy's name from a Latin word meaning a Moor, originally describing someone from Roman North Africa. Our data marks it reviving, and it peaked in 1920 — a century-long gap of the same kind we see in Walter and Frances.
4,640 in the 2010s
#1,212
Talon
4,583 in the 2010s
#1,214
Niko Niko is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Nikolaos meaning "victory of the people".
4,574 in the 2010s
#1,215
Otto Otto is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "wealth" or "fortune."
4,570 in the 2010s
#1,218
Korbin
4,553 in the 2010s
#1,219
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
4,552 in the 2010s
#1,220
Soren Soren is a boy's name of Danish origin, from the Latin Severinus meaning "stern" or "serious".
4,550 in the 2010s
#1,221
Joe Joe is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," a short form of Joseph that has become the English word for an ordinary person.
4,549 in the 2010s
#1,223
Alvin Alvin means elf-friend, from an Old English name that treats elves as beings whose favor was worth having.
4,535 in the 2010s
#1,226
Gary Gary is a boy's name that reached the charts by an unusually traceable route: a surname became a steel town in Indiana, the town's name was given to an actor, and the actor made it a first name.
4,512 in the 2010s
#1,228
Mohammad Mohammad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
4,494 in the 2010s
#1,230
Douglas Douglas is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic for dark water, originally a river and then a powerful border family.
4,487 in the 2010s
#1,231
Salvador Salvador means savior, and it names a country and an ocean crossing — El Salvador is the only nation named directly for Christ, and San Salvador was the first island Columbus reached.
4,486 in the 2010s
#1,232
Jasiah
4,484 in the 2010s
#1,233
Layton Layton is a boy's name from an English place name meaning "leek farm," and the vegetable is doing the work rather than any grander sense.
4,480 in the 2010s
#1,234
Leonidas
4,479 in the 2010s
#1,236
Roger Roger is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning famous spear.
4,475 in the 2010s
#1,238
Kylan
4,471 in the 2010s
#1,247
Dane
4,417 in the 2010s
#1,251
Santino Santino is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "little saint".
4,395 in the 2010s
#1,252
Kristopher Kristopher means Christ-bearer, and the legend built the meaning backward — a giant who carried a child across a river turned out to be carrying Christ, which is the story explaining the name.
4,392 in the 2010s
#1,254
Byron Byron means at the cattle sheds — a working place name that became shorthand for romantic poetry, which is a longer journey than most names make.
4,387 in the 2010s
#1,256
Emmitt
4,386 in the 2010s
#1,258
Yahir
4,375 in the 2010s
#1,260
Elian Elian is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God has answered."
4,367 in the 2010s
#1,261
Ayaan Ayaan is a name with two distinct origins. In Arabic it means "time" or "era," from ayn; in Somali it is a well-established girl's name meaning "bright" or "lucky" — and both are in current use.
4,365 in the 2010s
#1,262
Julien Julien is a boy's name, the French form of Julian, from a Roman family name whose meaning was never established.
4,361 in the 2010s
#1,263
Yusuf Yusuf is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will increase."
4,357 in the 2010s
#1,265
Ramon Ramon means protecting counsel, and both halves are Germanic — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, so a name that reads as thoroughly Spanish is Gothic underneath, like Fernando and Alonzo.
4,339 in the 2010s
#1,266
Deandre
4,318 in the 2010s
#1,271
Nathanael Nathanael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has given," and it is the same name as Nathaniel with the spelling closer to the Greek.
4,292 in the 2010s
#1,275
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
4,275 in the 2010s
#1,277
Roland Roland is a boy's name meaning famous land, and its bearer is the hero of France's national epic — a knight who dies at Roncevaux because he is too proud to blow his horn for help.
4,270 in the 2010s
#1,279
Wilson Wilson rose and fell with a presidency, and our data shows it plainly — 129 American births in 1911, then 496 in 1912, climbing to 1,381 by 1918 and back to 590 by 1920.
4,265 in the 2010s
#1,281
Lucian Lucian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
4,254 in the 2010s
#1,283
Eddie Eddie is a boy's name, the pet form of Edward or Edwin, meaning wealth.
4,236 in the 2010s
#1,284
Carl Carl is a boy's name from the Germanic word for a free man, the same root as Charles.
4,225 in the 2010s
#1,293
Jacoby
4,189 in the 2010s
#1,317
Ernesto Ernesto means serious in the deadly sense — the Germanic eornost named vigor in a fight, and the modern in earnest still keeps that force, meaning for real rather than in play.
4,093 in the 2010s
#1,320
Bo Bo is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning "to live" or "to dwell".
4,089 in the 2010s
#1,321
Brett Brett means a Breton — someone from Brittany, which is named for the Britons who fled there when the Anglo-Saxons arrived.
4,087 in the 2010s
#1,325
Edison
4,068 in the 2010s
#1,327
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year we hold, 2025, on 770 births — a name our records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
4,060 in the 2010s
#1,328
Makai
4,052 in the 2010s

What made a 2010s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 2010 and 2019, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "2010s 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.