2010s Baby Names

3,773 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

#35
Avery Avery is a name of English origin meaning "elf counsel," derived from the Norman French form of the Germanic name Alberich.
103,358 in the 2010s
#42
Ryan Ryan is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Riain.
97,271 in the 2010s
#63
Riley Riley is a name with two origins that converged. The Irish line comes from Ó Raghallaigh, an Anglicized surname, while the English line names a place meaning "rye clearing," from the Old English ryge and leah.
79,295 in the 2010s
#66
Jordan Jordan is a name from the river, whose Hebrew name Yarden means "to descend" or "flow down" — the Jordan drops sharply from its source to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's land surface.
76,717 in the 2010s
#68
Angel Angel is a name of Greek origin meaning "messenger," from angelos.
74,601 in the 2010s
#71
Cameron Cameron is a name of Scottish origin meaning "crooked nose," from the Gaelic cam, crooked, and sròn, nose.
72,174 in the 2010s
#94
Parker Parker is a name of English origin meaning "park keeper."
62,555 in the 2010s
#105
Peyton Peyton is a name of Old English origin meaning "Pæga's settlement."
55,458 in the 2010s
#115
Alexis Alexis is a Greek name meaning helper or defender, and it is split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
51,555 in the 2010s
#127
Blake Blake is a name of Old English origin with two opposite meanings.
49,335 in the 2010s
#141
Hayden Hayden is a name of Old English origin meaning "hay valley" or "hedged hill."
45,492 in the 2010s
#142
Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.
45,371 in the 2010s
#150
Sawyer Sawyer is a name of English origin meaning "one who saws wood."
43,577 in the 2010s
#184
Quinn Quinn is a name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn."
36,863 in the 2010s
#220
Morgan Morgan is a Welsh name meaning sea-born, and it charts in all seven markets within a range of just over three hundred places — one of the most evenly distributed names on this site.
31,642 in the 2010s
#224
Charlie Charlie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
31,009 in the 2010s
#231
London London is a girls' name in America and barely used in England — 81 percent of recorded births are female, it ranks 431st in the United States, and 3,355th in the country containing the city it names.
30,548 in the 2010s
#245
Rowan Rowan is a name with two origins. The Irish line comes from Ó Ruadháin, from ruadh meaning red, giving "little red-haired one."
28,943 in the 2010s
#260
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female on record, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
27,623 in the 2010s
#270
Emerson Emerson is a name of English origin meaning "son of Emery."
26,816 in the 2010s
#308
Eden Eden is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "delight" or "pleasure," from the garden of Genesis.
24,341 in the 2010s
#309
Reese Reese is a name of Welsh origin meaning "ardour" or "enthusiasm."
24,290 in the 2010s
#318
Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
23,719 in the 2010s
#324
Kendall Kendall means the valley of the River Kent, and Scotland ranks it 309th — above the United States at 329th, which is unusual for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
23,379 in the 2010s
#331
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
22,603 in the 2010s
#337
Elliot Elliot is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
22,261 in the 2010s
#340
River River is a name taken from the English word, which comes through Anglo-Norman from the Latin riparius, meaning "of the riverbank."
22,061 in the 2010s
#341
Dakota Dakota means friend or ally in the Dakota language, and it is one of very few widely used names taken from an Indigenous North American language.
21,858 in the 2010s
#343
Elliott Elliott is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
21,571 in the 2010s
#357
Rylan Rylan has no documented source, and the little king gloss repeated for it is unsupported — the likeliest reading is rye land, an English place name, but even that is not established.
20,563 in the 2010s
#372
Karter Karter is a unisex name of English origin, a respelling of Carter, the occupational surname for someone who drove a cart.
19,481 in the 2010s
#377
Amari Amari is a name with several competing origins: the Yoruba for "strength," the Arabic ʿāmir meaning "prosperous," and the Hebrew amar, "to say" — and reference works disagree because all three are genuine.
19,073 in the 2010s
#402
Skyler Skyler is Dutch and means a scholar — it respells Schuyler, a surname carried by one of New York's founding families, and it has nothing to do with the sky despite the spelling.
17,768 in the 2010s
#411
Phoenix Phoenix meant several things at once in Greek — the bird, the color purple-red, the date palm and a Phoenician — and the word cannot be reduced to any one of them without discarding the others.
17,500 in the 2010s
#430
Marley Marley is a name of Old English origin meaning "boundary wood" or "pleasant meadow."
16,527 in the 2010s
#437
Dallas Dallas is the only rising name in this group — it peaked in 2015 and is still climbing, at 238th in the United States.
16,262 in the 2010s
#452
Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."
15,750 in the 2010s
#454
Remington Remington is a unisex name of English origin, a place name meaning the settlement by the boundary stream.
15,708 in the 2010s
#483
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
14,535 in the 2010s
#526
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
13,081 in the 2010s
#528
Tatum Tatum is a name of Old English origin meaning "Tata's homestead."
13,021 in the 2010s
#537
Lyric
12,888 in the 2010s
#576
Drew Drew shortens Andrew, meaning manly, and there is a second unrelated Drew from a Germanic word for a ghost or phantom.
11,687 in the 2010s
#580
Justice
11,615 in the 2010s
#601
Kamryn
11,093 in the 2010s
#606
Rory Rory is a name of Irish and Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king."
11,016 in the 2010s
#623
Camryn Camryn is a unisex name, used mostly for American girls, and it's a modern spelling of Cameron.
10,642 in the 2010s
#644
Cadence
10,272 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.