2010s Baby Names

24,353 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

#148
Nora Nora is a girl's name that developed as a short form of longer names, chiefly Honora and Eleanor, and is now used independently.
44,088 in the 2010s
#151
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.
43,299 in the 2010s
#152
Bella Bella is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "beautiful."
43,253 in the 2010s
#153
Skylar Skylar is a name of Dutch origin meaning "scholar."
43,178 in the 2010s
#155
Alexa Alexa did not simply collapse when Amazon launched the Echo — it rose first.
42,066 in the 2010s
#156
Lucy Lucy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," from lux.
42,035 in the 2010s
#158
Arianna Arianna is a girl's name, the Italian form of Ariadne, from a Greek name meaning most holy.
41,845 in the 2010s
#159
Genesis Genesis is a name taken from the Greek word genesis, meaning "origin" or "beginning."
41,646 in the 2010s
#160
Violet Violet is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "purple," taken from viola, the Latin word for the purple flower.
41,612 in the 2010s
#161
Ariana Ariana is a girl's name of Greek origin, from Ariadne — the Cretan princess who gave Theseus the thread to escape the labyrinth.
41,374 in the 2010s
#165
Eleanor Eleanor is a girl's name that traces back to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the twelfth-century queen of France and later England, whose own name, Aliénor, is widely explained as "the other Aenor," distinguishing her from her mother, also named Aenor.
40,141 in the 2010s
#166
Kennedy Kennedy is a name of Irish origin meaning "helmeted head" or "ugly head," from the Gaelic ceann, head, and éidigh.
40,090 in the 2010s
#167
Maya Maya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
39,806 in the 2010s
#169
Caroline Caroline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man," the French feminine of Charles by way of the Latin Carolus.
39,639 in the 2010s
#171
Madelyn Madelyn is a girl's name and a modern American respelling of Madeline, which descends from Magdalene — meaning "of Magdala," a town on the Sea of Galilee.
39,209 in the 2010s
#173
Serenity Serenity is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Latin serenus, meaning clear or unclouded.
38,971 in the 2010s
#175
Alyssa Alyssa is a girl's name from the flower alyssum, whose Greek name means without madness — the plant was believed to cure rabies.
37,960 in the 2010s
#176
Autumn Autumn is a girl's name taken from the English word for the season, which comes through French from the Latin autumnus.
37,761 in the 2010s
#177
Paisley Paisley is a girl's name taken from the Scottish town, whose weavers gave their name to the swirling teardrop pattern.
37,638 in the 2010s
#178
Ashley Ashley is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree clearing."
37,550 in the 2010s
#182
Brianna Brianna is a girl's name, the feminine of Brian, whose Irish meaning has never been securely established.
36,965 in the 2010s
#186
Sadie Sadie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Sarah, the Hebrew name meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
36,604 in the 2010s
#189
Naomi Naomi is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "pleasantness," from No'omi.
36,216 in the 2010s
#190
Kylie Kylie is a girl's name usually said to mean "boomerang" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
36,165 in the 2010s
#191
Julia Julia is a girl's name of Latin origin, the feminine of the Roman family name Julius.
35,938 in the 2010s
#192
Sophie Sophie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "wisdom," the French form of Sophia.
35,695 in the 2010s
#193
Mackenzie Mackenzie means son of Coinneach, and the missing sound is the point — the Gaelic ends in a soft ch that English cannot spell, so the anglicized ending was written as a z that was never pronounced as one.
35,624 in the 2010s
#198
Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."
35,247 in the 2010s
#199
Gianna Gianna is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "God is gracious."
34,686 in the 2010s
#202
Luna Luna is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "moon."
34,224 in the 2010s
#203
Katherine Katherine is a girl's name whose meaning is not settled.
34,165 in the 2010s
#204
Hazel Hazel is a girl's name of English origin naming the hazel tree, from the Old English hæsel.
34,014 in the 2010s
#206
Khloe Khloe means green shoot, and the K is doing no work etymologically — it respells Chloe, whose Greek khloe names the first growth of a crop rather than a color or a plant.
33,855 in the 2010s
#208
Ruby Ruby is a girl's name of Latin origin naming the red gemstone, from ruber, meaning red.
33,523 in the 2010s
#210
Piper Piper is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "pipe player."
33,192 in the 2010s
#211
Melanie Melanie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark."
33,103 in the 2010s
#213
Lydia Lydia is a girl's name meaning "woman from Lydia," an ancient kingdom in what is now western Turkey.
32,748 in the 2010s
#214
Aubree Aubree respells a name that began as elf-ruler — the Germanic Alberich names the dwarf king who guards the Nibelung hoard, and the same figure becomes Oberon in medieval French romance.
32,694 in the 2010s
#215
Madeline Madeline is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee whose name comes from the Hebrew migdal, a tower.
32,398 in the 2010s
#216
Aurora Aurora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn."
32,172 in the 2010s
#218
Faith Faith is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "trust" or "belief," one of the virtue names the Puritans put into use in the sixteenth century.
32,055 in the 2010s
#225
Alexandra Alexandra is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," and it appears as a title of the goddess Hera before it was ever a personal name.
30,990 in the 2010s
#227
Reagan Reagan means little king, and birth records show the opposite of what most people assume — American births more than halved during the first two years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and did not take off until a decade after he left office.
30,965 in the 2010s
#228
Alice Alice is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," arrived at by a long contraction of Adelaide.
30,661 in the 2010s
#230
Rylee Rylee is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "rye clearing."
30,579 in the 2010s
#234
Kayla Kayla is a girl's name with no established etymology, an American coinage of the 1950s that a soap opera turned into a top-name.
30,319 in the 2010s
#238
Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
29,659 in the 2010s
#239
Jasmine Jasmine is a girl's name of Persian origin taken from the flower, whose name comes from yasmin.
29,418 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.