2010s Baby Names

4,118 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
#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
#82
Aubrey Aubrey is a name of Germanic origin meaning "elf ruler."
67,367 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 genuinely split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
51,555 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
#153
Skylar Skylar is a name of Dutch origin meaning "scholar."
43,178 in the 2010s
#168
Micah Micah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "who is like Yahweh?" — a rhetorical question expecting the answer that nobody is.
39,653 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
#217
Ashton Ashton is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree settlement."
32,061 in the 2010s
#220
Morgan Morgan is a Welsh name meaning sea-born, and it charts in all seven markets we track 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
#227
Reagan Reagan means little king, and our data shows 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
#231
London London is a girls' name in America and barely used in England — 81 percent of the births in our records are female, it ranks 431st in the United States, and 3355th in the country containing the city it names.
30,548 in the 2010s
#238
Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
29,659 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 in our records, 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
#277
Jocelyn Jocelyn began as a man's name for a Germanic tribe — the Gauts — and turned female in twentieth-century America. About 90 percent of the births in our records are now female.
26,368 in the 2010s
#282
Jaden Jaden is a modern American name with a genuine biblical original behind it — Jadon appears once in Nehemiah, as a man who helped rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and almost nothing else is known of him.
26,077 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
#311
Emery Emery is a name of Germanic origin, from Emmerich, generally analyzed as combining elements meaning work or power with ric, meaning ruler.
24,253 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
#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
#353
Zion Zion is a name of Hebrew origin naming the hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city and the promised land itself.
21,002 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
#418
Teagan Teagan is a unisex name of Irish origin, usually derived from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg meaning "poet".
17,201 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
#426
Presley Presley is a unisex name of English origin meaning "priest's meadow".
16,683 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
#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
#498
Jaylen Jaylen has no etymology, and the meanings offered for it contradict each other — healer, tranquil, devoted to Jove and supplanter all appear online, which is what happens when sources fill a blank.
13,969 in the 2010s
#526
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
13,081 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.