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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Rankings for

#581
Evangeline Evangeline is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bearer of good news."
11,610 in the 2010s
#583
Shelby Shelby is a girl's name from an English place name of Norse formation meaning a willow farm.
11,597 in the 2010s
#585
Danielle Danielle is a girl's name, the French feminine of Daniel, from a Hebrew name meaning God is my judge.
11,556 in the 2010s
#586
Megan Megan is a girl's name, the Welsh pet form of Margaret, from a Greek word for pearl that reached Europe from Persian.
11,499 in the 2010s
#588
Gemma Gemma is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "gem" or "precious stone."
11,467 in the 2010s
#589
Lexi Lexi is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of men," a diminutive of Alexandra taken from the middle of the name rather than the start.
11,441 in the 2010s
#590
Joanna Joanna means God is gracious, and it charts in all seven markets we track — the United States 306th, Ireland 367th, Scotland 395th, Northern Ireland 432nd, England and Wales 514th and France 721st.
11,414 in the 2010s
#593
Vivienne Vivienne is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive" or "full of life."
11,274 in the 2010s
#594
Raegan
11,263 in the 2010s
#598
Ashlyn Ashlyn has two possible sources and they disagree completely — the Irish aisling means a dream or vision, while the English reading is simply an ash-tree clearing.
11,153 in the 2010s
#599
Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.
11,140 in the 2010s
#603
Lilliana
11,088 in the 2010s
#604
Amanda Amanda is a girl's name from the Latin for she who must be loved, and one of the few names on this site that can be dated to a specific literary invention — Colley Cibber used it for a character in his 1696 play Love's Last Shift.
11,086 in the 2010s
#605
Selena Selena means the moon, and its curve has a shape we see nowhere else — American births went 918 in 1994 to 3,840 in 1995, the year Selena Quintanilla was killed on 31 March, then fell back to 2,296 the next year.
11,028 in the 2010s
#607
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.
11,013 in the 2010s
#610
Miriam Miriam is the origin of Mary, Maria, Marie, Maureen, Marion and Molly — the largest name family in Europe — and it still charts in all seven markets we track, with its top four inside 46 places of each other.
10,933 in the 2010s
#612
Ruth Ruth is a girl's name of Hebrew origin usually given as "companion" or "friend," though the derivation is not secure.
10,857 in the 2010s
#615
Erin Erin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "Ireland."
10,779 in the 2010s
#616
Mikayla Mikayla respells Michaela, and the Hebrew behind both is a question — who is like God — whose expected answer is nobody.
10,758 in the 2010s
#617
Lilah Lilah is a girl's name with two possible origins: the Hebrew laylah, meaning "night," or a short form of Delilah, whose meaning is "delicate" or "languishing."
10,752 in the 2010s
#618
Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.
10,727 in the 2010s
#621
Elaina Elaina is a girl's name of Greek origin, a variant of Helen.
10,656 in the 2010s
#622
Phoebe Phoebe is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bright" or "radiant."
10,645 in the 2010s
#624
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.
10,613 in the 2010s
#628
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
10,554 in the 2010s
#629
Rosalie Rosalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
10,535 in the 2010s
#630
Alexia Alexia means defender, and it is also a clinical term — alexia is the medical name for acquired inability to read, from the same Greek root by a completely separate route.
10,525 in the 2010s
#631
Lena Lena is a girl's name used as a short form of Helena, Magdalena and Elena, so it usually carries the sense "light" or "torch."
10,516 in the 2010s
#634
Fatima Fatima is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "one who weans" or "one who abstains."
10,495 in the 2010s
#637
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
10,447 in the 2010s
#638
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
10,415 in the 2010s
#640
Amiyah
10,363 in the 2010s
#641
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
10,359 in the 2010s
#643
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
10,278 in the 2010s
#644
Cadence
10,272 in the 2010s
#646
Kayleigh Kayleigh is far larger in England than its American figures suggest — 1,206 births in England and Wales in 1996 against a US peak of 1,450, in a country with about a fifth of the population.
10,235 in the 2010s
#648
Adelaide Adelaide means noble in kind, and it is one of only three names in this group our data marks as rising — 230th in Canada, 289th in the United States, 344th in England and Wales, 416th in France and 618th in Scotland, and setting its English peak in the most recent year we hold.
10,225 in the 2010s
#649
Sloane Sloane is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "raider" or "warrior."
10,222 in the 2010s
#651
Kathryn Kathryn is a girl's name, the y-spelling of Katherine, and it inherits that name's genuinely unknown meaning.
10,199 in the 2010s
#652
Kendra Kendra has no settled origin — a feminine of Kenneth, a Welsh compound meaning greatest champion, and an invention from Ken plus a fashionable ending are all proposed, and none is established.
10,194 in the 2010s
#653
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
10,167 in the 2010s
#654
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
10,167 in the 2010s
#655
Madilyn
10,129 in the 2010s
#657
Kelsey Kelsey is a girl's name from an English place name, and its two proposed meanings — ship's victory and Cenel's island — have nothing in common.
10,084 in the 2010s
#658
Alicia Alicia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a Latinate form of Alice.
10,075 in the 2010s
#659
Sabrina Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn, and the legend behind it is a drowning — a princess thrown into the river became its spirit.
10,067 in the 2010s
#661
Amber Amber is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "ambergris."
10,023 in the 2010s
#662
Charlee Charlee is a girl's name of Germanic origin, a respelling of Charlie.
10,019 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.