2010s Baby Names

24,194 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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#469
Giselle Giselle means a pledge, and the pledge was a person — the Germanic gisil named a hostage given as security for a treaty.
15,187 in the 2010s
#470
Arabella Arabella is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
15,120 in the 2010s
#474
Kylee Kylee has no agreed source, and it is not a feminine of Kyle — the -lee ending was attached to a Ky- opening in twentieth-century America, and any Gaelic meaning offered for it arrived afterward.
14,734 in the 2010s
#475
Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.
14,704 in the 2010s
#479
Fiona Fiona was invented by a Scottish poet, and then used as a pen name by a man — William Sharp published as Fiona Macleod for a decade and denied being her until his death.
14,669 in the 2010s
#482
Ana Ana is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "favor" or "grace," and it is the form of Anna used across Spanish, Portuguese and Slavic Europe.
14,549 in the 2010s
#484
Kate Kate is a girl's name of Greek origin, a short form of Katherine whose meaning has never actually been established.
14,470 in the 2010s
#485
Alayna Alayna is a girl's name, a modern respelling that sits between several older names.
14,457 in the 2010s
#488
Alexandria Alexandria is the city before it is the name — Alexander founded it in 331 BC, and the feminine given name was formed from the place rather than directly from Alexandra, which took a different route.
14,302 in the 2010s
#489
Melissa Melissa is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bee," and it was the title of the priestesses who served Demeter.
14,277 in the 2010s
#491
Sienna Sienna is a girl's name from the Italian city of Siena, and by way of it from the reddish-brown earth pigment mined nearby.
14,141 in the 2010s
#492
Anastasia Anastasia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "resurrection."
14,118 in the 2010s
#494
Gabriela Gabriela means God is my strength, and the archangel behind it is the one who announces rather than fights — Gabriel delivers the message in both Daniel and Luke, and in Islamic tradition brings the Qur'an.
14,034 in the 2010s
#496
Adelyn Adelyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
13,979 in the 2010s
#499
Josie Josie is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Josephine, and so means "he will add," inherited from the Hebrew Yosef.
13,967 in the 2010s
#501
Leila Leila means night, from Arabic, and it is one of the most evenly spread names on this site — France 211th, the United States 259th, England and Wales 269th, Scotland 282nd and Ireland 339th, a spread of just 128 places.
13,919 in the 2010s
#502
Lola Lola is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning "sorrows."
13,900 in the 2010s
#505
Tessa Tessa is a girl's name that grew out of Theresa and is now used independently.
13,883 in the 2010s
#507
Aniyah
13,817 in the 2010s
#508
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
13,799 in the 2010s
#512
Kinley
13,485 in the 2010s
#516
Keira Keira rose twice, two years apart, and both markets moved together — American births went 433 in 2003 to 1,244 in 2004, then on to 3,022 by 2006, with England and Wales tracing the same two steps in the same years.
13,440 in the 2010s
#518
Diana Diana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "divine" or "heavenly," the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon.
13,411 in the 2010s
#521
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.
13,221 in the 2010s
#527
Maggie Maggie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
13,060 in the 2010s
#529
Juliet Juliet is thirteen in the play, and Shakespeare says so twice — the Nurse gives her age precisely, which most productions quietly ignore and most readers never notice.
13,009 in the 2010s
#531
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.
12,989 in the 2010s
#532
Brynn Brynn is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "hill".
12,985 in the 2010s
#535
Juliette Juliette is a girl's name of Latin origin, the French diminutive of Julie and so of Julia, from the Roman family name Julius.
12,952 in the 2010s
#536
Haley Haley means hay meadow, from an English place name.
12,910 in the 2010s
#540
Georgia Georgia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "farmer" or "worker of the earth," the feminine of George, from ge, earth, and ergon, work.
12,789 in the 2010s
#545
Allie Allie means noble, and it serves three different names at once — Alice, Allison and Alexandra all shorten to it, so which one a given Allie belongs to cannot be read off the name itself.
12,606 in the 2010s
#546
Ayla Ayla is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
12,566 in the 2010s
#547
Jenna Jenna is a girl's name that began as an elaboration of Jenny and is now used independently.
12,485 in the 2010s
#548
Jada Jada appears once in the Hebrew Bible as a man's name, in a genealogy in Chronicles — the modern American name is effectively a separate creation that happens to match it.
12,439 in the 2010s
#549
Jacqueline Jacqueline is a girl's name, the French feminine of Jacques, and it inherits the meaning supplanter from Jacob.
12,390 in the 2010s
#551
Miranda Miranda was coined by Shakespeare for The Tempest around 1611, from the Latin for to be wondered at.
12,255 in the 2010s
#552
Maci
12,247 in the 2010s
#553
Eloise Eloise is a girl's name of French origin, from the medieval Héloïse.
12,235 in the 2010s
#555
Brynlee Brynlee is a girl's name of modern American coinage, combining the Welsh bryn, meaning hill, with the -lee ending from the Old English leah, a clearing.
12,208 in the 2010s
#556
Elliana Elliana is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has answered me."
12,195 in the 2010s
#561
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.
12,028 in the 2010s
#564
Noelle Noelle is a girl's name of French origin meaning "Christmas."
11,923 in the 2010s
#570
Cassidy Cassidy means curly-haired, from an Irish surname — and Scotland ranks it 416th, above Northern Ireland at 464th and the United States at 541st, with Ireland itself back at 807th.
11,788 in the 2010s
#571
Journey Journey is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Old French journee — which meant a day's work or a day's travel.
11,775 in the 2010s
#573
Makenna
11,765 in the 2010s
#574
Cali
11,708 in the 2010s
#575
Katie Katie is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Katherine whose meaning has never been settled.
11,704 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.