2010s Baby Names

17,532 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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#384
Maximus Maximus was a Roman cognomen meaning the greatest, and it charts in all seven markets — England and Wales ranks it 219th, above the United States, which is not where a Latin superlative usually leads.
18,694 in the 2010s
#385
Zayden Zayden is a boy's name of modern American coinage, formed by attaching the -ayden ending to a Z.
18,690 in the 2010s
#386
Jasper Jasper is a boy's name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer," from a root behind the title of a keeper of the treasury.
18,587 in the 2010s
#387
Andres Andres is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave."
18,381 in the 2010s
#393
Beau Beau is a boy's name from the French beau, meaning handsome or beautiful.
18,178 in the 2010s
#396
Derek Derek is a boy's name from the Germanic Theodoric, meaning ruler of the people — and it is the same name as Terry and Thierry, three forms of one original that no longer resemble each other.
17,989 in the 2010s
#397
Omar Omar is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "flourishing" or "long-lived."
17,960 in the 2010s
#398
Myles Myles is a boy's name and a variant spelling of Miles, whose origin is disputed.
17,933 in the 2010s
#399
August August is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "majestic," from augustus.
17,905 in the 2010s
#401
Finn Finn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white."
17,808 in the 2010s
#403
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.
17,745 in the 2010s
#406
Waylon Waylon is a boy's name of English origin, generally traced to Wayland, the legendary smith of Germanic myth, whose name means something close to "battle land."
17,726 in the 2010s
#407
Jorge Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of George, meaning farmer.
17,714 in the 2010s
#408
Devin Devin is a name from an Irish surname, and its meanings are contested — poet, and a word for a stag, are both proposed from different Irish originals.
17,596 in the 2010s
#410
Dean Dean is a boy's name with two English origins.
17,525 in the 2010s
#414
Zane Zane peaked in 2018, later than almost any name in this group, and it entered American use as a surname — Zane Grey's westerns carried a family name that traces back to the founder of Zanesville, Ohio.
17,344 in the 2010s
#417
Javier Javier means the new house, and it is Basque rather than Spanish — Saint Francis Xavier was named for his family's castle at Xabier, so the name is a place that became a surname and then a first name.
17,204 in the 2010s
#420
Cody Cody is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicising Ó Cuidighthigh, meaning "descendant of the helpful one."
17,135 in the 2010s
#421
Gage Gage means a pledge, and it names the object rather than the person — the thing handed over as security.
16,996 in the 2010s
#423
Jase
16,891 in the 2010s
#424
Lorenzo Lorenzo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Laurentum," the Italian and Spanish form of Laurence.
16,875 in the 2010s
#425
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.
16,795 in the 2010s
#429
Brooks Brooks is a boy's name of English origin meaning "of the brook" or "dweller by the stream," from the Old English broc. It began as a surname identifying a family by the water they lived beside.
16,543 in the 2010s
#434
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.
16,294 in the 2010s
#438
Griffin Griffin peaked in 2023, more recently than any other name in this group, and it is not named for the beast — the Welsh Gruffudd came first, and the resemblance to the griffin is coincidence.
16,258 in the 2010s
#439
Judah Judah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "praised."
16,236 in the 2010s
#443
Paxton Paxton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Pæcc's farmstead".
16,101 in the 2010s
#444
Emiliano Emiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Italian form of Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
16,094 in the 2010s
#447
Lukas Lukas does not mean light, despite what most sources say — it means a man from Lucania, a region of southern Italy.
15,956 in the 2010s
#451
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.
15,755 in the 2010s
#453
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
15,726 in the 2010s
#455
Collin Collin doubles the L of Colin, and the name underneath has two unrelated sources — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean, which share nothing but a spelling.
15,702 in the 2010s
#461
Jax Jax is a boy's name of modern coinage, a respelling of Jack or Jackson.
15,454 in the 2010s
#463
Dawson Dawson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of David."
15,350 in the 2010s
#464
Conner Conner means desiring hounds rather than loving them — the Irish joins a word for a hound or wolf to one meaning desire, and the softer lover of hounds gloss smooths over what was a warrior's name.
15,296 in the 2010s
#465
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.
15,284 in the 2010s
#466
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
15,283 in the 2010s
#468
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.
15,266 in the 2010s
#471
Beckett Beckett is a boy's name of Old English origin, most likely meaning "bee cottage" or "stream."
15,053 in the 2010s
#472
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
14,904 in the 2010s
#473
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
14,898 in the 2010s
#476
Cristian Cristian drops the h from Christian, and the h was never in the Greek pronunciation anyway — it marks a letter that Latin borrowed as a digraph, so the Spanish and Romanian spelling is the plainer one.
14,687 in the 2010s
#477
Seth Seth is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "appointed" or "placed," given to Adam and Eve's third son after Cain killed Abel.
14,686 in the 2010s
#478
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.
14,681 in the 2010s
#480
Chance Chance means a falling, and the falling was dice — the Old French cheance describes how they land, from the Latin cadere, to fall, which also gives cadence, decay and accident.
14,643 in the 2010s
#481
Matteo Matteo is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God."
14,640 in the 2010s
#486
Stephen Stephen is a boy's name from the Greek for crown or garland, borne by the first Christian martyr.
14,422 in the 2010s
#487
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.
14,404 in the 2010s

What Made a 2010s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 2010 and 2019. 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.